localzuk Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Ah, well that was fun. Just did a quick scan for bluetooth devices from my desk (I have a classroom above me) and found 3 phones connectable. I popped into the classroom and mentioned it and 3 kids suddenly looked so shocked! Great fun!
Geoff Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 (edited) I hope you ripped thier phone book, sms messages, photos and movies first. You get bonus points for re-routing the school internet via their GPRS. Edited January 11, 2008 by Geoff
localzuk Posted January 11, 2008 Author Posted January 11, 2008 Haha, I'm not quite that much of a BOFH I'm afraid.
mattx Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Bluetooth snarfing is a hobby of mine - specially when in public places like pubs, cafes, stations - or anywhere were there is a large collection of people.....
StewartKnight Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 *makes mental note... turn off blue tooth when around mattx*
richard.thomas Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 The last time I was doing some shopping I got loads of bluetooth files sent to me. They were rather.... interesting... I never knew the human body could bend so much... mmm...
mrforgetful Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 My old phone used to be able to browse, cannot figure out how to do anything on my n73 except send people a message/picture or whatever. And even that needs their permisison.
MkII Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 I always thinks it'd be so easy in school to do that scam where you earn pots making them call a premium rate number - schoolkids are such an easy target.
Joedetic Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 I knew there was a good reason that I never leave my bluetooth on That and it eats power.
Sirbendy Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 Heh...I have a bluetooth USB doodad in my PC, ever since a kid lobbed it through my door and said "this pendrive is S.....".. Plonker. He never wanted it back. It's funny how many kids had bluetooth phones from christmas though...they all come up. Some staff too! I'm glad BT isn't on on my IPaq...the kids were BTing dubious material (of another student, say no more but pass the the puke bucket, please) around last week...and other kids were heard to say "I never thought of taking pics of myself...oh yeah..!".. We've had incidents of it before...notably "look Sir - porn on my PSP" etc..but they now know BT is available and out of our control.. Am I correct in stating that there's no commercially sold bluetooth jammers yet..?
Geoff Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 It's illegal to jam signals, whether that be bluetooth, GSM or otherwise.
Sirbendy Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 Damnation. IIRC, BT and Wifi are both on 2.4Ghz, are they not? Block one, kill both..not feasible.
dhicks Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 Damnation. IIRC, BT and Wifi are both on 2.4Ghz, are they not? Block one, kill both..not feasible. Unless you built a faraday cage of some kind ("magnetic" iron-filing paint?) around each classroom, then put a wireless access point inside each one to relay your wireless signals. Not, actually, completely infeasible (basically consisting of a coat of paint and wiring a wireless access point into each classroom), but still wouldn't block signals outside classrooms. -- David Hicks
tech_guy Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 I'm partial to a bit of bsnarfing meself. Amazing what I picked up at Bett when I was drinking my coffee...
mrforgetful Posted January 14, 2008 Posted January 14, 2008 Anyone got a link or something to some kind of tutorial?
Andrew_C Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 (edited) Does anyone know how hard it would be to push a message to any Blue enabled phone saying words to the effect "This is a 'king theatre; turn your phone off NOW!" I know that some won't be BT enabled, and some will require passwords... But it could be fun to try! Any pointers to legal methods would be welcome. Edited January 15, 2008 by Andrew_C edit
tom_newton Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 I once got bluetooth'd by an exhibition stand "Visit stand V34 and claim your free t-shirt" or some such. Thought that was quite clever.
TechMonkey Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Does anyone know how hard it would be to push a message to any Blue enabled phone saying words to the effect I know that some won't be BT enabled, and some will require passwords... But it could be fun to try! Any pointers to legal methods would be welcome. Pretty easy. Make a contact saying that (or close as), scan for devices, send contact to device. Shouldn't need passcode as you aren't doing anything other than sharing info. My old P900 had a great program for doing this automatically, scan and send a message to all devices. Was great fun. Can't find a similar app for Mobile device Am the cry.
sharkster Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Does anyone have any help guides or know any programs that can help aid in learning bt snarf? ANY help would be much appreciated:D
richard.thomas Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 There used to be alot of adverts that would send you bluetooth messages. The sort that you have on the sides of bus shelters. However, IIRC there's now some sort of 'law' thats been passed thats made it so that the user has to do something before they get the message, rather than just walking past it. i.e. they have to consent to recieve a message or something like that
PEO Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 There used to be alot of adverts that would send you bluetooth messages. The sort that you have on the sides of bus shelters. However, IIRC there's now some sort of 'law' thats been passed thats made it so that the user has to do something before they get the message, rather than just walking past it. i.e. they have to consent to recieve a message or something like that Cineworld in Middlesbrough does this. I accepted the bluetooth application and now i get film updates to my mobile while im Looking at whats on and coming up
mrforgetful Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 Cineworld in Middlesbrough does this. I accepted the bluetooth application and now i get film updates to my mobile while im Looking at whats on and coming up Really encouraging people to 'switch it off' there then!
sharkster Posted January 29, 2008 Posted January 29, 2008 does any one know of any software then please? either for the pc or for a mobile phone?
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