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| | Bluetooth Security Review, Part 1 |
 | | The idea behind Bluetooth technology was born in 1994, when a team of researchers at Ericsson Mobile Communications, led by Dr. Jaap Haartsen and Dr. Sven Mattisson, initiated a feasibility study of universal short-range, low-power wireless connectivity as a way of eliminating cables between mobile phones and computers, headsets and other devices. |
 | | The Bluetooth address itself is a unique 48bit device identifier, where the first 3 bytes of the address are assigned to a specific manufacturer by the IEEE (www.ieee.org/), and the last 3 bytes are freely allocated by the manufacturer. |
 | | Bluetooth addresses can also be extracted during Bluetooth communication, as the address itself is not encrypted even if user chooses to encrypt the rest of the communication. |
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