[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[William Sutton]

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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