Kudos to BBC World’s Click for news of an unexpected potential security threat to your mobile phone:
Bluetooth headsets rely on the phone to transmit radio waves to the earpiece. But they are vulnerable. That two-way connection can also be a gateway into your handset.
Using free software that’s readily available on the web, it’s possible for someone to hijack the Bluetooth connection between your headset and handset and use it to extract all kinds of data from your phone, including your address book, calendar events and maybe even your bank account passwords that you’ve stored on that handy unencrypted text file!
So if you insist on wearing this ridiculous accessory in public the rest of us now know that, in fact, you’re every bit as retarded as you look…
One asshat to beam up!
Andrew Currie 
4 responses to “Bluetooth Headsets Compromise Security, Make You Look Stupid”
Um… didn’t you use to wear one?
I did indeed, until I realized that having another radio (albeit a smaller one) next to my skull wasn’t really doing anything to solve the whole “radiation of the noggin” issue.
That, and it also looked retarded. That’s why I gave mine to Kevin on his birthday. Shhh…
Sorry, I cant live without mine, no wonder how alien I look…jawbone all the way!
AC:
I think they made those ones iwth the flashing blue lights so that people would notice how much of an idiot you look like with one of them on….
The IT security people at my work also recommend that you not make your Bluetooth device discoverable unless you’re syncing two devices for the first time. Turn discoverable off once they’ve finished linking. This applies for computers as well as PDAs, phones, and anything else with Bluetooth.
Ed