Bluetooth Security Issues
Can somebody please explain the security issues surrounding the Bluetooth phone concept?
Let's face it, the wireless networks in most neighborhoods are vulnerable as all heck. There are theives & hackers driving around with WI-FI laptops, downloading financial data from home networks.
Bluetooth uses the same frequency band (2.4 GHz) as most home 802.11b wireless networks. How is BT different, that it raises an alarming concern with Verizon now and not with the other carriers?
Personally, I'm much more concerned about the likelihood of what can already happen to my home LAN than the likelihood that someone will follow my phone around within 30 feet, hack in without the passkey and steal my phone book or something.
Let's face it, the wireless networks in most neighborhoods are vulnerable as all heck. There are theives & hackers driving around with WI-FI laptops, downloading financial data from home networks.
Bluetooth uses the same frequency band (2.4 GHz) as most home 802.11b wireless networks. How is BT different, that it raises an alarming concern with Verizon now and not with the other carriers?
Personally, I'm much more concerned about the likelihood of what can already happen to my home LAN than the likelihood that someone will follow my phone around within 30 feet, hack in without the passkey and steal my phone book or something.
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That's the thing... VZW isn't more alarmed than other companies... Their restrictions on bluetooth have nothing to do with the security because let's face it... Like you said everything is vulnerable... It's a funny thing though that with all the "issues w/ security" that VZW reps keep spitting out about bluetooth... every other carrier that offers bluetooth has had no problems with it.
Like I said in a previous post... VZW is just restricting it until they can find a way to charge for it... Nothing more in depth than that.
Like I said in a previous post... VZW is just restricting it until they can find a way to charge for it... Nothing more in depth than that.
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