Holy Bluetooth sniping, Batman.

[unixronin]

The wireless industry wants you to believe that Bluetooth devices are safe from hacking.  They're rather unhappy that the guys at Flexilis in Los Angeles have developed a Bluetooth "sniper rifle" with which they can hack into, and steal data from, a Bluetooth device from a mile away.  And that's not the limit -- the article notes that a version with a parabolic dish antenna could be much more powerful.

(Link courtesy of technoshaman)

Comments

Yabbit...

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

what can they actually do? I don't see the hacking-into, stealing-data bit in that article. I see discovery of devices' MAC addresses. I find this underwhelming.

Re: Yabbit...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I read it as that was all they had the time to do at the time. If you can read the MAC address off the device, you can use any other exploit against it -- and the truth is there are plenty of Bluetooth exploits out there already. This just allows you to use them from much, much further away.