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I was bluejacked by a bus stop a couple of days ago. Sitting at a bus shelter, a prompt came on my phone "accept 1_evermore.mp3 from bluetooth".
I had been worded up and was looking for this particular bus stop
http://www.accessallareas.net.au/data/EEZZApAkkZycNZxPys.php
How cool is that! Imagine sitting at the bus stop, and suddenly "someone" offers you a free song! Neato.
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Posted: 2007-05-10 17:24:28
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nice, theres a few banks in london that send there latest offers to you as you walk past/use the cash machine...
mp3 would be much better
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Posted: 2007-05-10 17:35:11
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On 2007-05-10 17:35:11, batesie wrote:
nice, theres a few banks in london that send there latest offers to you as you walk past/use the cash machine...
mp3 would be much better
I don't know if it's such a good security feature for a bank to encourage people to accept unknown bluetooth requests!!
Or for music distributers either, though because I was aware of the bus shelter promotion I wasn't concerned about receiving the song (I did so on my K750, but also on my N70, which being s60 device can be virus infected via bluetooth if your not careful what you accept)
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Posted: 2007-05-10 17:45:08
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nice....
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Posted: 2007-05-10 18:18:40
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very cool, though it does give rise to issues of invasion of privacy. if you could walk every corner and get these bluetooth messages every 5 seconds, wouldn't that count as spam?
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Posted: 2007-05-10 19:21:36
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On 2007-05-10 19:21:36, bodum wrote:
very cool, though it does give rise to issues of invasion of privacy. if you could walk every corner and get these bluetooth messages every 5 seconds, wouldn't that count as spam?
That's why bluetooth has 2 very effective settings, the on and off function, which will stop you getting spam when you don't want it.
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Posted: 2007-05-10 21:25:25
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Residentevil Posts: > 500
Looks like they are trying to increase foot traffic.
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Posted: 2007-05-10 22:00:10
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i got bluejacked on my w800 once. i thought i was being sent a file yet it deleted one off my phone
i wish i knew how to bluejack properly
dude_se
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Posted: 2007-05-10 23:42:17
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lol, wish id seen these bus stops
@dude_se, hi dom
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Posted: 2007-05-10 23:58:38
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I got that once when I was passing by an Orange shop and also once when next to a Nokia add (the nokia add sent me a tube map)
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Posted: 2007-05-11 00:46:23
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