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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Schmehl, Paul L)
Fri Nov 14 15:08:49 2003
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From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Serious flaws in bluetooth
> security lead to disclosure of personal data
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> Are you aware of any very informative papers or tools(other
> than btscanner) for use in testing bluetooth networks(such as
> Airsnort). From what I know about it thus far, it just
> operates in the same spectrum as 802.11b, but I'm still
> researching. I'm very interested in observing traffic
> patterns and analyzing what is exactly happening. I do
> analysis for a living and it's a new area that no one really
> at my position has an experience in(even though it's been
> around for a while). My idea is to research how far a
> bluetooth signal will travel when leaving a building as we
> want to set up a test lab and do not want people sitting
> outside to be able to detect any of it. We've looked into
> doing this with 802.11b standard before but we cannot find a
> way to mute the signal enough to meet our needs.
>
Bluetooth is *supposed* to be very short range - 10 meters is supposed
to be the maximum range. It is *not* 802.11b. It's 802.15.1. See
bluetooth.org for the details.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
