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Re: Bluetooth cracked further
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 12:56:41 2005
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:55:25 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87vf4v1jb1.fsf@snark.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message
of "Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:44:50 -0400")
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> Cracking the Bluetooth PIN
>
> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~yash/shaked-wool-mobisys05/index.html
I realized I didn't mention the really evil part.
1) They can crack your security if they can listen in to the pairing
communication.
2) They also have a way of forcing pairing to happen, by impersonating
one of the devices and saying "oops! I need to pair again!" to the
other.
If you have a pair of bluetooth devices that are paired, best to keep
them in a faraday cage at all times.
Perry
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