This is yet another reason NOT to buy those stupid phones with 14 different features. Every time I buy a cell phone, I buy the cheapest one available, so it doesn't have all of this crap associated with it. I just want a cell phone that *works*. The last thing I want is a phone with so many useless features that it actually has *security* holes! That's insane. So if it comes to the point where the only phone I can get has this stupid Bluetooth stuff, then I have to worry about feds wiretapping me AND k
It surprises me how retarded people on a technology site can be.
Do you avoid those stupid computers and just buy 4-function calculators to avoid all those viruses, trojans, spam and all the other crap associated with the internet and modern computing? I guess not.
If you look closely, people being hax0r3d are almost always the ones who don't understand what they're doing.
-Don't enable full read/write access to all files while using broadband without a firewall. -Don't leave bluetooth enabled when not using
This problem seems like one that could be fixed in software. Turning BT on and off as required is a great intermediate solution, but a lot of cellphone and PDA people have implemented their software such that turing it on and off requires walking through several menus. It's a chore for something that should be as simple as 2-3 button presses.
The people who whine to not buy BT cellphones and devices are, of course, as retarded as the companies who did not implement a secure standard;)
on my P900 I click Control Panel->Connections->Bluetooth-> On->Done (takes about 3 secs) I also get a tick box whether to be visible to other devices. To turn off again, click the Bluetooth icon->Off->Done While Bluetooth is enabled a blue light slowly flashes.
If this "visible to other devices" option is not present on other phones that is a mistake of the manufacturer.
If the hacked phones have "not visible" enabled then that's a problem with Bluetooth.
If the hacked phones don't have "not v
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Yet another reason to get the *cheap* phones (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yet another reason to get the *cheap* phones (Score:3, Informative)
Do you avoid those stupid computers and just buy 4-function calculators to avoid all those viruses, trojans, spam and all the other crap associated with the internet and modern computing? I guess not.
If you look closely, people being hax0r3d are almost always the ones who don't understand what they're doing.
-Don't enable full read/write access to all files while using broadband without a firewall.
-Don't leave bluetooth enabled when not using
Bluetooth is incorrectly implemented. (Score:2)
The people who whine to not buy BT cellphones and devices are, of course, as retarded as the companies who did not implement a secure standard
Re:Bluetooth is incorrectly implemented. (Score:2)
Control Panel->Connections->Bluetooth-> On->Done (takes about 3 secs)
I also get a tick box whether to be visible to other devices.
To turn off again, click the Bluetooth icon->Off->Done
While Bluetooth is enabled a blue light slowly flashes.
If this "visible to other devices" option is not present on other phones that is a mistake of the manufacturer.
If the hacked phones have "not visible" enabled then that's a problem with Bluetooth.
If the hacked phones don't have "not v