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i leave my BT headset on in the car, Can't be bothered to switch it off when I'm in a rush.
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Posted: 2005-06-20 12:22:39
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maybe people using a laptop have a bluetooth mouse so its already always on??
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Posted: 2005-06-20 13:05:11
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some people have it switched on just because they have it, even if they dont know what it is for.
Also, if it is switched on and you are set as hidden what happens for some devices (such as the iMate) is that when a phone scans, it actually does find the phone, but it sends a message back telling the phone not to show up. Of course this is not the case with all phones.
So you can see that some people may find a way around this.
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Posted: 2005-06-20 13:18:30
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I know that a lot of people switch their laptop 'off' by pressing the power button - many laptops go into standby when you do this.
If they are using a USB BT dongle for their pda / phone / mouse etc. then the dongle will remain on whilst the laptop is in standby. Most PCs turn on BT automatically when the BT dongle dongle is plugged in, which explains why they would have it enabled in the first place
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Posted: 2005-06-20 13:46:45
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I find this hard to believe......
E.G.
A would be thief is in a car park, blue-tooth on. He detects a PDA but there are 10 parked cars, what one has the PDA?
Is the report claiming he/she brakes into all 10 to find the device? I very much doubt it.
....Just a thought!
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Posted: 2005-06-20 15:05:07
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or there could be 1, but that could be anywhere i suppose, its very clover, it shows crooks are clever, which is quite scary
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Posted: 2005-06-20 17:12:46
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Even if the thief were to detect a laptop in one of ten parked cars, it would still make it quicker for the thief to steal something quickly. Instead of having to look in every car in the car park, he could just look in the ten or however many there are within 10m of himself. And lets face it, how many people do you think hide their valuables inside their cars ? not many.
Also, just because a PDA or laptop is switched off, it doesnt automatically mean that the Bluetooth wont be detectable. In fact, in many devices other than mobile phones, this is the case.
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Posted: 2005-06-21 00:28:15
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I think this a load of rubbish, because:
1) How the hell would te police know anyway. Picture the conversation,
"So, how did you know that there was a laptop in that car that you broke into?"
"Well, actually, me and all my pikey mates use the Bluetooth on our phones to scan for devices unwittingly left on by innocent yuppies."
Somehow, I doubt it...
2) If you switch off a laptop (by which I mean turn off the power, as I would think most laptop users would know) then it will NOT be discoverable. It's not rocket science. The reason the same does not apply to PDAs and Smartphones (at least the HTC ones) is that when you turn them off, you don't actually turn off the radio element, just the PDA - the phone is still in standby, and so BT would still be detectable.
3) Admittedly, I am not a thief who hangs around waiting to break into people's cars, but, given that some (probably most?) laptops have a BT range of 100m, how is this method actually going to work?? You do a scan and realise that there are 10 laptops, left unattended and switched on by their owners (which is fairly unlikely to start with) within 100m of you in your chosen Aldi car park. Where do you start?!
So, anyway, I think that's a fairly compelling argument not to believe everything you read!
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Posted: 2005-06-21 00:50:19
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how do you steal it?... i mean the laptop...?...totally confusing...with the blue tooth you can only transmit the datas to a laptop..not retrieve the info from laptop....correct me if i am wrong...
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Posted: 2005-06-21 07:50:01
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well....i guess you could smash the car window, lean in, and pick it up
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Posted: 2005-06-21 07:57:58
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