Bluetooth Question - Samsung D500

NJO_3

Hi,

my mate was out with me fri night and some how on his sanyo phone he said he used bluetooth to show him other people's phonebooks who had bluetooth turned on, which i thought he was joking but he actually got it to work! can you do this on a samsung d500? he said not but it has bluetooth so why cant it?

NJO.

knuckledragger

"Bluejacking" - using your bluetooth to surf others bluetooth enabled devices. Not just phones.
Keep yourself hidden until you are actually using the phone with bluetooth enabled.
Activate any security features. Change the pin code for your bluetooth pairing. It often has a default which others will know if they have knowledge of your device.
It's not just your phone book that's at risk, consider any images/video you may have saved.

NJO_3

knuckledragger wrote:

"Bluejacking" - using your bluetooth to surf others bluetooth enabled devices. Not just phones.
Keep yourself hidden until you are actually using the phone with bluetooth enabled.
Activate any security features. Change the pin code for your bluetooth pairing. It often has a default which others will know if they have knowledge of your device.
It's not just your phone book that's at risk, consider any images/video you may have saved.

So, is it possible to do that on a samsung d500 or just the sanyo's?

jf2404

Nearly all Bluetooth phones can do it.

Some phones let people search your phone if they have bluetooth enabled at the some time, but some other phones bring up a message saying "x is trying to connect via bluetooth, continue or not".

So obviously the ones with no warning message are the ones you can get info/contacts from, (unless the fool says yeah i allow you to steal all my contacts, go ahead), you never know...

NJO_3

jf2404 wrote:

Nearly all Bluetooth phones can do it.

Some phones let people search your phone if they have bluetooth enabled at the some time, but some other phones bring up a message saying "x is trying to connect via bluetooth, continue or not".

So obviously the ones with no warning message are the ones you can get info/contacts from, (unless the fool says yeah i allow you to steal all my contacts, go ahead), you never know...

any explaination on how to do a D500? any1?

it would be a laugh looking at my mates numbers etc... :-)

jf2404

Turn bluetooth on next to him, he will need his turned on also though.

Then you can send contacts to him, i have sent via bluetooth but not taken contacts from other phones to mine, so i'm unsure of the procedure.

Mr_Skint_2

This all seems a bit dodgy this Thread, why would you wanna do it
without anyone knowing the 3rd post seems a bit frantic.

jf2404

For a laugh by the looks of it, but like i say i only know how to send, not "take" contacts.

Do a google and you will find out how it's done.

NJO_3

Mr_Skint wrote:

This all seems a bit dodgy this Thread, why would you wanna do it
without anyone knowing the 3rd post seems a bit frantic.

its fun when your sat in a cafe , bus etc... my mate says he can send people messages for a bit of fun i.e phone names called 'man u fan' or 'fitbird' etc... then you can have the crack with each other.

drahcir_2

most new phones have security to stop this now (depending on s/w versions)
i can scan my 6230 and get the phone book etc with my 6600 but i cant get into my wifes 6230

barjam_2

i have a d500 but have never tried this but my bothers mate has a d500 and he can do it ..he renames his fone to be called service centre and when it says service centre is trying to access blutooth (or whatever) , he says people usually accept, only telling you guys this just to be on your guard in the future..

i have my phone named to my name but when i connect to my dongle my phone is named service centre ........ strange