ElicitBILLBOARD Testing on the Train
Over the past week I have been catching the train and testing the Bluetooth software on my laptop to guage how many people seem to leave their Bluetooth on and how many change their phone name. On the four trips I detected the following phones. The most simultaneously active was four.
Phone Bluetooth Names
Factory Names
Motorola V3x
T610ad
Nokia 7600
Cellular Phone
U8380
Re-Named
Waynos
kamal bhatti
Sally’s LG
Eqbaal
Moka
Said
~~Dj JaSsY~~
Lamps K750i
SALEM
DUBAI
Vic
Whilst testing I left my Bluetooth on and was sent .sis files. Not knowing what they were I declined and did some research. As it turns out these files are Bluetooth worms that send themselves from phone to phone. It brought up some interesting ideas though. One of the limitations of Bluetooth, the broardcast radius, raises a few social questions. As I sat on the train being sent files from another phone I would look about my carriage for who it might be; it had to be someone close to me. It was very different to receiving a virus from the internet.
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Over the past week I have been catching the train and testing the Bluetooth software on my laptop to guage how many people seem to leave their Bluetooth on and how many change their phone name. On the four trips I detected the following phones. The most simultaneously active was four.
Phone Bluetooth Names
Factory Names
Motorola V3x
T610ad
Nokia 7600
Cellular Phone
U8380
Re-Named
Waynos
kamal bhatti
Sally’s LG
Eqbaal
Moka
Said
~~Dj JaSsY~~
Lamps K750i
SALEM
DUBAI
Vic
Whilst testing I left my Bluetooth on and was sent .sis files. Not knowing what they were I declined and did some research. As it turns out these files are Bluetooth worms that send themselves from phone to phone. It brought up some interesting ideas though. One of the limitations of Bluetooth, the broardcast radius, raises a few social questions. As I sat on the train being sent files from another phone I would look about my carriage for who it might be; it had to be someone close to me. It was very different to receiving a virus from the internet.
