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bluejacked by a bus stop |
max_wedge
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I was bluejacked by a bus stop a couple of days ago. Sitting at a bus shelter, a prompt came on my phone "accept 1_evermore.mp3 from bluetooth".
I had been worded up and was looking for this particular bus stop
http://www.accessallareas.net.au/data/EEZZApAkkZycNZxPys.php
How cool is that! Imagine sitting at the bus stop, and suddenly "someone" offers you a free song! Neato.
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batesie
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nice, theres a few banks in london that send there latest offers to you as you walk past/use the cash machine...
mp3 would be much better
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max_wedge
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On 2007-05-10 17:35:11, batesie wrote:
nice, theres a few banks in london that send there latest offers to you as you walk past/use the cash machine...
mp3 would be much better
I don't know if it's such a good security feature for a bank to encourage people to accept unknown bluetooth requests!! 
Or for music distributers either, though because I was aware of the bus shelter promotion I wasn't concerned about receiving the song (I did so on my K750, but also on my N70, which being s60 device can be virus infected via bluetooth if your not careful what you accept)
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deathmanager
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nice.... |
bodum
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very cool, though it does give rise to issues of invasion of privacy. if you could walk every corner and get these bluetooth messages every 5 seconds, wouldn't that count as spam? |
arien617
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On 2007-05-10 19:21:36, bodum wrote:
very cool, though it does give rise to issues of invasion of privacy. if you could walk every corner and get these bluetooth messages every 5 seconds, wouldn't that count as spam?
That's why bluetooth has 2 very effective settings, the on and off function, which will stop you getting spam when you don't want it. 
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Residentevil
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Looks like they are trying to increase foot traffic.
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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i got bluejacked on my w800 once. i thought i was being sent a file yet it deleted one off my phone  i wish i knew how to bluejack properly 
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A L 3 X
Joined: Dec 20, 2006
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lol, wish id seen these bus stops
@dude_se, hi dom
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amnesia
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I got that once when I was passing by an Orange shop and also once when next to a Nokia add (the nokia add sent me a tube map)
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Lo-couk
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Pretty neat, was the mp3 any good? Oh, Plz excuse my short reply as i'm using my mobile. It's 2 1st 4 me doing this on gprs.
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fatreg
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you'd be gutted if you missed the bus though!
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*Jojo*
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
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@max - If this is part and parcel of an advertisement . . . who can it be from  I hope this will IDEA will be emitted out in: train, ferry, airport and cab - terminals . . .
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max_wedge
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it was Evermore - Running. The mp3 was only 32Kbps, but atleast it was free. 
I agree it could be considered spam, and what will happen if it get's invasive, people will just learn to turn their bluetooth off. so much for bluejacking
Actually you don't have to turn bluetooth off though, you can just set it to hidden. Then you can still be sent objectives by phones or devices you have paired with, but non-paired devices won't be able to see you.
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*Jojo*
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@max - H m m m m . . . I just thought of this just now could it be that there is someone inside that stand-post Where does that Blutong :bt: signal coming from dude ?
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Posted: 2007-05-10 17:24
