Ezekiel wrote:
> There are 100's of millions of bluetooth capable devices out in the world.
> Notice that there isn't very much (if any) news about people getting
> devices hijacked via bluetooth. If bluetooth hijacking was easily done
> then hackers all over the world would be hacking into all of these cell
> phones and PDA's and stealing data. But it's not happening and one of the
> reasons is that when you attempt to pair a device to a phone or PDA - you
> must confirm and accept the pairing on the phone or PDA first.
>
> What this means back to the original context is that this "ftp flaw" is a
> bug - but not one that's going to be exploitable by anyone other than
> someone who has been explicitly granted access to the device.
The short range and, by default, needed user intervention makes bluetooth a
difficult channel for malware or hacking. I only see the "ftp flaw" being a
problem if a user is being explicitly target and that is probably rare.
Regards.
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