[lug] Security and BlueTooth

Matt Clauson mec at dotorg.org
Fri Jan 19 13:30:27 MST 2001


On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:27:20PM -0700, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> Speaking of the latest worm...
> 
> I was just reading about BlueTooth <www.bluetooth.com> where the
> author touted the possibility of going into a conference and having
> everyone's business card automatically downloaded to your PDA.
> 
> I have this image of being able to walk down the street and infect
> every electronic device within 30 feet.

I just made a note to myself to make certain I never purchase a device
enabled with Microsoft software...  Especially anything resembling Outlook
or Visual Basic.  *grin*

--mec




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