A new way for you to have your information stolen from you -- bluesnarfing. Using a high-gain antenna, one can hack into a Bluetooth device (like your high-priced cell phone) from a long distance away, ripping off your stored phone numbers, calendar items, your cell phone number, etc. Why is this possible? Because the Bluetooth development specification for cell phones recommends that only services should be responsible for binding and securing BT connections (and not the cell phones themselves). I guess the recommendation committee probably didn't think that long-range hacking on a normally short-range networking method could occur. They'll have to think again due to the mighty power of the BlueSniper.
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