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| | IEEE Spectrum: Bluetooth Cavities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The name comes from Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish king who united the provinces of Denmark under a single crown—just as Bluetooth, theoretically, will unite the world of portable, wireless devices under a single standard. |
 | | (Randomly searching for hackable Bluetooth devices is called bluestumbling; generating an inventory of the available services on the devices—such as voice or fax capabilities—is called bluebrowsing.) When they find them, they're chalking the Bluetooth symbol (the Nordic runes for the letters H and B, for Harald Bluetooth) on the sidewalk, a practice known as bluechalking. |
 | | Bluetooth crackers have recently learned to exploit problems in the Object Exchange (OBEX) Protocol, used to synchronize files between two nearby Bluetooth devices—a practice called pairing, which is a normal part of the Bluetooth connection process, but in this case it's done without the other person's permission. |
| www.spectrum.ieee.org /jun05/1225 (824 words) |
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