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yeah..thats a good way ...
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Posted: 2005-06-21 08:01:47
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better still if you can jimmy the car lock open and not have to leave smashed glass everywhere
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Posted: 2005-06-21 08:36:47
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@rajasekharan_v
not really! you can take folders,or files with your phone from your laptop through :bt: or even, if paired you can "steal" (- not necessary with beholder's approval )folders!
tried it myself!!-only with
...no NOKIA can do that!
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Posted: 2005-06-21 10:31:43
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This criminal technology grows alongwith other fields. Awareness can only help the preventive measures.
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Posted: 2005-06-21 10:52:13
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On 2005-06-21 00:50:19, dave_uk wrote:
I think this a load of rubbish, because:
Its possible the thief explained how, or the Police were told so from local informers who snitch on their thieving counterparts.
Its also possible the Police figured out what was going on from watching CCTV footage of thieves mysteriously knowing which cars to break into, and which not. Its not rocket science as you say, to piece two and two together, especially when the thief is walking around carrying a mobile phone - and almost using it as a sort of metal detector.
Its also worth pointing out that whether people turn their laptops off or not keeps the Bluetooth active probably does not compare to the amount of people who keep their laptops on standby rather than off, so the Bluetooth would remain active. I often find Bluetooth laptops on Bluetooth searches when out in the street. If i look around, i usually see someone in a suit with a laptop bag, obviously the laptop must be theirs.
The actual range of the Bluetooth laptop is irrelevant. Bluetooth relies on two way communication, so only laptops could be discovered 100m away if the phone had 100m range Bluetooth aswel. So, if a thief were to find a 100m range laptop, it would only show up on his 10m range Bluetooth phone when he goes within or around 10m of it - not 100m.
This way of committing crime is very believable if you know a little about Bluetooth - and i know my local Police force use Bluetooth heavily, since ive seen the officers with headsets and Bluetooth phones.
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Posted: 2005-06-21 12:20:42
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Apparently, etaab, you don't know as much about Bluetooth as you think. Part of what got me thinking about this is the fact that when I worked at CPW HQ, if I scanned for devices using SMan, I could detect laptops and desktops that were 50m+ from where I was sitting.
Therefore, whatever else you might conjure up about ways in which the police may have worked it out (incidentally, it would take some more intuitive police than I've come into contact with to watch a CCTV camera and deduce that the car thieves were in fact Bluetooth criminals, more likely to be a new form of Happy Slapping, a Happy Robbing if you will
tne fact remains that most of these sorts of crimes are opportunistic and as you have pointed out, there are a number of coincidences that would have to occur for this BlueCarJacking to be of any use to a potential thief.
And as for equating the use of Bluetooth Headsets by police (and most car drivers!) with an understanding of how it could be used to commit crime in this way, I am flabbergasted if you think that there is any relationship.
Hence, my original sentiments that I reckon it's rubbish!
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Posted: 2005-06-21 20:26:37
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I reckon i know far more about the limits and possibilities of Bluetooth than you. Just because you worked at CPW, does not mean you know what you're talking about. In fact, like most CPW staff, you're actually talking BS.
Its you that conjured up the idea that a thief could detect a laptop 100m away. From that range, any phone with 10m range would not pick it up without help from a secondary device or by using one of the techniques i'll outline for you.
Only when the phone gets closer (usually standard Bluetooth range extends slightly further than 10m, sometimes as far as 30m if you're lucky) would it pick up the laptop.
However, every phone has a sweetspot, where the range extends even further. Its easy to think of the Bluetooth signal as a perfect sphere that extends equally in all three dimensional directions. The truth is, a Bluetooth signal is actually elliptical. So, in some directions it is around 10m, and in another direction it can go much further.
You can even bounce a Bluetooth signal off a solid wall and extend your phones range - which is very possible in an office environment.
I assume your P900 with Sman found devices because of the sweetspot. Ive had similar success myself with my old K700i - i once bluejacked a S700i at a range of about 50m. I was shocked it worked.
As for the Police, you obviously do not personally know any. Also, assuming that the police are retards who wouldnt know what Bluetooth can do is simply being narrow minded. Police officers are normal people just like everyone else in the world - why shouldnt they know just as much about Bluetooth as everyone who has posted in this thread ?
The fact is, the police do know about Bluetooth related crimes. In fact, my local police station has their own website, and forum which ive posted on in the past where people have discussed Bluetooth related crimes.
If you're going to say something, at least be informed of facts rather than simply believing that everyone is a complete technophobe.
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Posted: 2005-06-21 22:58:19
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Guys ! Phew ! ! Without trying to sound diplomatic, I think everyone is partly correct.
Dave, it (story) does have its blindspots. But as Etaab said, its a cool crime.
Ultimately, ALL our assumptions is but- hypothesis. And mine says, these ARE talented people. Maybe misdirected enuf to flick laptops, need to enlighten us too..
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Somebody ask em to post here- How the heck they managed it? Rite car, Rite time, Rite Range ! !
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Posted: 2005-06-21 23:56:00
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I should think this sort of crime is fairly easy.
Any idiot with a Bluetooth phone can perform a search. All he needs to do is be in the right parking lot (such as an offices parking lot) and have luck that someone will have left a Bluetooth device switched on.
I might give this a try - except i wont actually steal anything.
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Posted: 2005-06-22 19:11:11
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Well, well....just been away for awhile but had to answer this:
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On 2005-06-21 22:58:19, etaab wrote:
I reckon i know far more about the limits and possibilities of Bluetooth than you. Just because you worked at CPW, does not mean you know what you're talking about. In fact, like most CPW staff, you're actually talking BS.
Yes, well maybe you do and maybe you don't. The fact that I am using demonstrable examples that are leading you to contradict yourself would suggest the latter. I don't think I claimed that I know about Bluetooth because "I've worked at CPW" and how many non-CPW shop staff have you come into contact with anyway? As I believe you yourself said:
"If you're going to say something, at least be informed of facts..."
Any reason why you're so knowledgeable?
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Its you that conjured up the idea that a thief could detect a laptop 100m away. From that range, any phone with 10m range would not pick it up without help from a secondary device or by using one of the techniques i'll outline for you.
Nope, as I said, I didn't conjure up anything, I
actually did it, which is much more substantial than spouting rhetoric passed off as fact.
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Only when the phone gets closer (usually standard Bluetooth range extends slightly further than 10m, sometimes as far as 30m if you're lucky) would it pick up the laptop.
However, every phone has a sweetspot, where the range extends even further. Its easy to think of the Bluetooth signal as a perfect sphere that extends equally in all three dimensional directions. The truth is, a Bluetooth signal is actually elliptical. So, in some directions it is around 10m, and in another direction it can go much further.
You can even bounce a Bluetooth signal off a solid wall and extend your phones range - which is very possible in an office environment.
This is all very interesting (actually it really is) but nonetheless you have now decided that the range of a BT phone is no longer 10m (as in your previous post) but can be increased to 30m. Your credibility is disappearing...
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I assume your P900 with Sman found devices because of the sweetspot. Ive had similar success myself with my old K700i - i once bluejacked a S700i at a range of about 50m. I was shocked it worked.
Ok, now it's 50m - why not? Are you trying to prove my point?
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As for the Police, you obviously do not personally know any. Also, assuming that the police are retards who wouldnt know what Bluetooth can do is simply being narrow minded. Police officers are normal people just like everyone else in the world - why shouldnt they know just as much about Bluetooth as everyone who has posted in this thread ?
You're right - I tend not to count too many police officers as friends. I don't find it conducive to avoiding their attention! However, I wouldn't (and didn't) suggest that they were retards - simply that the average police officer probably has less technical mobile knowledge than the average Esato user. Why shouldn't they know as much about Bluetooth as everyone who has posted on this thread? Because this is a forum generally populated by people with more than an average layman's knowledge of mobile phones, whereas I don't believe that is a prerequisite to be in the Police force (from what I've seen on The Bill of course!
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The fact is, the police do know about Bluetooth related crimes. In fact, my local police station has their own website, and forum which ive posted on in the past where people have discussed Bluetooth related crimes.
Fair enough - that was a fairly small part of my argument, and I wasn't insinuating that nobody within the Police force has any knowledge, but that PC Plod is probably not on the lookout for people BlueJacking laptops whereas he would notice your local telephone box being smashed in! Also, I can't imagine there's a particularly long list of Bluetooth crimes, now are there?
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If you're going to say something, at least be informed of facts rather than simply believing that everyone is a complete technophobe.
I absolutely agree, which is why I don't BS and claim to know things and pass them off as fact when in fact I don't. You will notice that most of the points you have picked up on, I did not assert were true - there are question marks all over my original post. You are actually interpreting what I wrote with your own poetic licence and are incorrect. So all I can say to that, really, is right back at you!
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