# Bluetooth phones vulnerable to hackers

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bluetooth-phones-vulnerable-to-hackers/60243>\
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**Created:** [August 8, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bluetooth-phones-vulnerable-to-hackers/60243 "2004-08-08T05:12:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bluetooth-phones-vulnerable-to-hackers/60243/1 "2004-08-08T05:12:11Z")

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[http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64463,00.html?tw=wn\_tophead\_3](http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64463,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3)

> The BlueSniper “rifle,” created by John Hering and colleagues at Flexilis as a proof-of-concept device, resembles a rifle. It has a vision scope and a yagi antenna with a cable that runs to a Bluetooth-enabled laptop or PDA in a backpack. Aiming the rifle from an 11th-floor window of the Aladdin hotel at a taxi stand across the street in Las Vegas, Hering and colleagues were able to collect phone books from 300 Bluetooth devices. They bested that distance and broke a record this week by attacking a Nokia 6310i phone 1.1 miles away and grabbing the phone book and text messages.

Sounds like that really needs to be fixed soon.

I really don’t like the idea that someone could make your phone call them and use it as a bug, sounds like a real security problem.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bluetooth-phones-vulnerable-to-hackers/60243/2 "2004-08-08T05:16:10Z")

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that’s creepy! I thought having gps in your phone was scary, especially where other phones can see where you are 😃

but that’s just crazy!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bluetooth-phones-vulnerable-to-hackers/60243/3 "2004-08-08T07:02:29Z")

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Yeh I heard about this bluetooth attack a few weeks ago but this wasnt the first one, the first one was from germany. Some hacker guy interrupted a bluetooth enabled phone and took all the data. First “phone virus”.