[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Steve Litt]

Yeah, I get all my email via a port forwarded ssh to my home IMAP, so
it's secure, and if I do anything that should be secure, I do it over
ssh to my home computer. So security of the Bluetooth would be
significant. If it were 10 feet, I could see who's around me. At 300
meters, thousands could have a listen.

SteveT

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:07:10 -0400 (EDT), William Sutton said:
> that said, if you encrypt your traffic from the laptop to wherever
> you're connecting to (such as a VPN endpoint), it doesn't matter as
> much how secure your bluetooth connection is WRT someone reading your
> traffic. OTOH, if your interface isn't secure, they could still get
> into your laptop....
> 
> William Sutton
> 
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Chris Merrill wrote:
> 
> > On 8/11/2012 1:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> >> My one worry would be security, given that this Bluetooth goes
> >> 300 meters, meaning the guy in the hotel next to yours can pick it
> >> up. But if I could solve that, wow!
> >
> > Bluetooth has security built in.  You have to "pair" the devices
> > the first time they connect to allow the connection.  Don't ask me
> > how good the security is...I don't know.  But I don't hear much
> > about bluetooth hacking, so I assume it is reasonably good for most
> > users.
> >
> > Another example of the uses of bluetooth: many cars now support
> > bluetooth phones. Once they have been paired, calls to the phone
> > are routed (locally via bluetooth) to the car audio system. My car
> > mutes the audio when the phone rings and I can answer by pushing a
> > button on the steering wheel. I'm then on a speakerphone via the
> > car audio and phone integration. I don't use the phone much, but it
> > is pretty slick on those few occasions I've used it. I'd use
> > bluetooth audio integration MUCH more often, but for reasons I
> > cannot fathom, the car doesn't support that :(
> >
> >
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