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Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle
Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle
03/14/2005 06:28 PMSlashdot Mar 14 2005 5:58AM GMT
BlueSniper Rifle and More Fun Bluetooth
Exploits
BlueSniper Rifle and More Fun Bluetooth
Exploits
08/06/2004 11:51 AM
Wired News has a story about the BlueSniper rifle, a
yagi-antenna and scope affixed to a gun-like stock that this week
broke a distance record for BlueSnarfing (pulling up phone book and
text message information from insecure Bluetooth-enabled phones) by
slurping data from a Nokia 3610i from 1.1 miles away. There's more to
the article than just the BlueSniper, too, including other hacks like
Bluebug, an exploit that allows someone to silently instruct your
phone to make a call to another phone, thus allowing someone to
eavesdrop on your conversations with your own phone.
Read<
/b> - Security Cavities Ail Bluetooth [Wired]
HOWTO build a Bluetooth "sniper rifle"
HOWTO build a Bluetooth "sniper rifle"
03/14/2005 05:29 PMCory Doctorow:
One of the security assumptions in Bluetooth is that attackers need to
be quite close-by if they want to gain access to your phone or other
device. Here's simple instructions for building a handsome, effective
Bluetooth "sniper rifle" whose high-gain antenna will give you access
to devices from miles away.
After a few seconds, John pointed the gun at the Library Tower / US
Bank Building, which is the tallest building in Los Angeles. The
building was .75 miles (a little over 1 km) from our position.
As more Bluetooth devices started appearing, John said, "This building
is full of Bluetooth! Look we got some Blackberries!" He also
explained that, with multiple guns, it would be possible to track a
single Bluetooth device as the person walked around. In less than a
few minutes, twenty devices were detected—all at distances over a
half mile away! We decided to quickly conclude the scan, given police
activity in the area earlier in the day from a bomb scare.
Lin
k
(
via MAKE Blog)
Australian 3 users to get Bluetooth
upgrade soon
Australian 3 users to get Bluetooth
upgrade soon
12/03/2003 08:32 PMSydney Morning Herald Dec 3 2003 6:17PM ET
Treo 600 Users Offer Big Bucks for
Bluetooth
Treo 600 Users Offer Big Bucks for
Bluetooth
06/16/2004 10:43 PMBrightHand Jun 17 2004 1:46AM GMT
Treo 600 Users Offer Bluetooth Bounty
Treo 600 Users Offer Bluetooth Bounty
06/16/2004 02:51 PMBrightHand Jun 16 2004 6:04PM GMT
Sony Ericsson advises users to turn off
Bluetooth
Sony Ericsson advises users to turn off
Bluetooth
02/11/2004 03:02 PMZDNet UK Feb 11 2004 5:54PM GMT
Bluejacking software for Microsoft
Smartphone users, enjoy Bluetooth to the
max!!!
Bluejacking software for Microsoft
Smartphone users, enjoy Bluetooth to the
max!!!
01/03/2005 09:45 PMCoolSmartPhone Jan 4 2005 12:14AM GMT
Security gap in some phones Hackers may
swipe data from users of Bluetooth
Security gap in some phones Hackers may
swipe data from users of Bluetooth
05/03/2004 06:47 AMSan Francisco Chronicle May 3 2004 10:25AM GMT
Tuned in, turned on How Bluetooth mobile
users spice up sex lives
Tuned in, turned on How Bluetooth mobile
users spice up sex lives
04/21/2004 03:35 AMIndependent Apr 21 2004 7:09AM GMT
Literate Programming in XML
Literate Programming in XML
12/18/2002 12:08 PMAt XML 2002 Norm Walsh has presented
his implementation
of Literate Programming in XML, available as part of his DocBook
stylesheets.
Verbal, if not literate.
Verbal, if not literate.
09/10/2004 05:51 AM
Sure,
it's just more Bush-bashing, but it's gussied up durn pretty.
Philip Gourevitch on Bushspeak.
He is grossly underestimated as an orator by those who
presume that good grammar, rigorous logic, and a solid command of the
facts are the essential ingredients of political persuasion, and that
the absence of these skills indicates a lack of intelligence. Although
Bush is no intellectual, and proud of it, he is quick and clever, and,
for all his notorious malapropisms, abuses of syntax, and manglings or
reinventions of vocabulary, his intelligence is—if not especially
literate—acutely verbal.
America's Most Literate Cities
America's Most Literate Cities
12/08/2003 05:53 AMAmerica's Most Literate Citieshttp://www.uww.edu/cities/This study, compiled in summer 2003, pieces together a
literacy profile of America's 64 largest cities, drawing from U.S.
Census data, newspaper circulation rates, library resources,
publishers and other public documents. The study, authored by
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Chancellor and education Professor
Jack Miller, draws on statistics from five categories and 13 different
measures of literacy to provide a ranking for all cities with a
population of 250,000 or more. The Top 10:
1) Minneapolis,
MN
2) Seattle, WA
3) Denver, CO
4) Atlanta, GA
5) San Francisco, CA
6) Pittsburgh, PA
7) Washington,
DC
8) Louisville, KY
9) Portland, OR
10) Cincinnati,
OH
Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines
Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines
10/29/2003 11:26 AMLeo 4.0.4 released
"Minneapolis again ranked as most
literate city"
"Minneapolis again ranked as most
literate city"
08/04/2004 03:30 PMpyWeb Literate Programming by slott on
2002/06/07
pyWeb Literate Programming by slott on
2002/06/07
06/10/2002 09:25 AMRanks of computer literate professionals
grow by 1,100
Ranks of computer literate professionals
grow by 1,100
08/08/2004 05:28 PMJordan Times Aug 8 2004 8:34PM GMT
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
04/09/2004 08:02 PMIf one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the
quality and social standing of its teachers.
Sniper's rifle recovered
Sniper's rifle recovered
04/22/2004 05:16 AMA sniper's rifle and ammunition are recovered by police who arrest
four men in the south Armagh area.
That AK-47 Automatic Rifle? That's Just
My MP3 Player
That AK-47 Automatic Rifle? That's Just
My MP3 Player
02/10/2004 02:41 AMBy now we've seen all sorts of odd or confusing convergence products,
where people will try to add an MP3 player to a variety of different
products that don't necessarily make sense as an MP3 player. Here's
one, however, that goes a bit further than you might have predicted.
Apparently, a UK company is
selling the AK-MP3 - an MP3 player built into the ammunition clip
of a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. The company selling this is doing
so pretty much as a publicity stunt to sell the players loaded with
audio books they're pitching. Their website includes a
picture
which suggests that not only should you be wandering around
swinging your automatic rifle around while bopping to music coming out
of your headphones - you should do it in a camouflage bikini. The
rifle, the girl and the bikini are apparently not needed to use the
MP3 player. The folks behind the player point out that: "This is our
bit for world peace - hopefully, from now on many militants and
terrorists will use their AK-47s to listen to music and audio books."
Rio police hit pay day with confiscated
rifle (Reuters)
Rio police hit pay day with confiscated
rifle (Reuters)
07/21/2004 11:13 PMReuters - Five police officers in the crime-ridden state of Rio de
Janeiro have cashed in on Brazil's
guns-for-money campaign, pocketing $40 (22 pounds) each for
turning in an assault rifle taken from a drug trafficker, state
officials say.
Will Mini iPods Delete Bigger iPods?
Will Mini iPods Delete Bigger iPods?
01/07/2004 06:38 PMWell, as every other tech site in the world is now telling you, the
not-so-secret rumors that Apple was coming out with a "mini iPod",
cleverly named "iPod mini"
are completely true. The other
big story people are focusing on are that Apple has gotten past their
Henry Ford-style color options, and will offer the iPod mini in
multiple colors. You can read all the details at other sites, but in
looking over the stories about the device, I'm wondering if the iPod
mini will replace the iPod itself as the popular music device of
choice. Personally, I don't own an iPod or any portable digital music
player (I barely have any digital music - so buying such a device
would only mean I need to rip all my CDs, which is a project I'm still
not ready to bother with). Still, the iPod mini seems to make a lot
more sense to me than many other portable music devices. The early
MP3 players had way too little memory, but once you get up into the 4
gigabyte range, I wonder how much more some people need.
Historically, of course, that's a dangerous viewpoint to take - since
we've
always figured out ways to fill up empty storage space.
With Apple even advertising games, calendars and other iPod apps - you
can imagine that the memory will go. However, if I were in the market
for such a device, I'd definitely go with the mini iPod version right
now: it's a better size for carrying around and it's "good enough" in
terms of storage space - not to mention that it's cheaper. Thus,
while I'm sure there are some people who simply
need to have
more storage space, I'm wondering if this mini iPod will steal
marketshare away from its big brother.
Computerworld Falls For RFID Rifle Hoax
Computerworld Falls For RFID Rifle Hoax
04/28/2004 12:15 AMLast year Brian McWilliams pulled off a
hoax on
Computerworld, convincing a reporter that he was a terrorist
hacker who had programmed the Slammer worm. When the story came out
there was a lot of embarrassment all around, but it appears that
Computerworld hasn't beefed up their fact checking department much.
Earlier this month there was some
buzz
around the blog world about a
r
ifle that would shoot RFID tags into people in order to track
them. It wasn't that difficult (beyond just using a bit of common
sense) to realize this was actually a
hoax<
/a>. However, thanks to Politech, we discover that
Computerworld has fallen for the hoax completely and written
up a whole story about it. I wonder how long the story will last
until it's taken down. Of course, this also raises questions about
where Computerworld got the story. Did they pick it up off a blog and
then fail to credit them?
Sniper rifle modded to be WiFi antenna
Sniper rifle modded to be WiFi antenna
08/03/2004 11:00 AM
A friend of mine from the Shmoo hacker group told me about this
amazing DefCon stunt back in June and swore me to secrecy, and it's
been one of the hardest secrets I've ever kept, because this is so
goddamned cool.
The Sniper Yagi is an M16 with the firing apparatus removed and
replaced with a directional high-powered antenna. Use the sniper stand
and sight to line up your WiFi shot, plug in, and let the packets
begin!
Link
Yahoo! News - THE TRUTH ABOUT RIFLE
STATISTICS
Yahoo! News - THE TRUTH ABOUT RIFLE
STATISTICS
09/22/2004 02:27 PMYahoo!From this story .. New York Post: .. finger or
two
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=106&ncid=742&e=1&u=/nyp
ost/20040920/cm_nypost/thetruthaboutriflestatistics
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Sniper rifle shoots RFID chips into
people?
Sniper rifle shoots RFID chips into
people?
04/13/2004 01:58 PM
This is probably
phony, but it seems like something that might actually be used: The ID
SNIPER rifle implants "a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being,
using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The
microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal
damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target.
It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At
the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the
scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture
will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis."
L
ink (Thanks, Thorzdad!)Barret's XM109: No-Hassle 25mm Sniper
Rifle
Barret's XM109: No-Hassle 25mm Sniper
Rifle
08/18/2004 08:38 AM
Barrett's prototype XM109 packs no-fuss, some-muss light armor
penetration into a convenient point-and-shoot form factor that makes
lofting 25mm sniper rounds downrange a relative walk in the park for
today's workaday infantryman. Going into testing this month, the XM109
uses the computerized sighting-system "BORS" (Barrett Optical Ranging
Sighting System) to automatically compensates for changes in air
pressure, temperature, and the angle of the weapon towards the target,
"taking all the sweat-math work out of first-round shots." Dial in the
distance and take your shot - that armored vehicle should go down in
the first round.
The XM109 can hold up to five of the 25mm rounds - derived from the
dual-purpose (metal and meat) rounds used in the AH-64 Apache
helicopter - and can penetrate up to 50 millimeters of armored
plating, such as the stuff that protects many of aging SCUD missile
launchers.
If given the green light by the armed forces, expect future
production versions to incorporate a range-finder, night-vision
capability, and sound suppression. (Thanks, Mikegre, you
punk.)
Read - WEAPONS OF THE WORLD: The 25mm Sniper
Rifle [StrategyPage]
In Magazine Interview, Kerry Says He
Owns Assault Rifle
In Magazine Interview, Kerry Says He
Owns Assault Rifle
09/26/2004 10:42 AMKerry's Chinese assault
weapon:
nytimes.com/2004/09/26/politics/campaign/26guns.html
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XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU
XEMICS Makes Bluetooth™ Easier New
Solution with Embedded Bluetooth
Controller and Programmable MCU
06/09/2004 02:30 AMXEMICS today announces a new device based on the unique Embedded-Host
Architecture in their EasyBlue™ family. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]
* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone
* Bluetooth serial assistant - an
assistance for the ports Bluetooth
series on Smartphone
03/22/2005 04:41 PMPocket PC Universe Mar 22 2005 4:51PM GMT
TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth
TEN Technology naviPlay(TM) Bluetooth(R)
Stereo Adapter for iPod to be Bundled
with Hewlett-Packard Bluetooth
01/06/2005 07:20 AMInvestors Business Daily Jan 6 2005 11:40AM GMT
Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011
Strategy Analytics: Is There Bluetooth
in Your Ford?; In-vehicle Bluetooth
market worth $20 Billion by 2011
03/14/2005 06:28 PMdBusinessNews.com Mar 13 2005 4:06AM GMT
SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance
SMC’s Newest Wireless Bluetooth USB
Adapter is First to Market with
Bluetooth 1.2 Compliance
12/17/2004 06:44 PMSMC® Networks (www.smc.com), leading provider of networking solutions
for the SMB/e, the ISP and all the way home, today announced the
newest member of the EZ Connect™ family of home networking products,
the SMC-BT10 EZ Connect Wireless Bluetooth® USB Adapter. The new
Bluetooth USB adapter makes it easy to set-up a personal area network
(PAN) that connects up to seven Bluetooth-equipped devices such as
wireless phones or PDAs. And, Bluetooth 1.2-compliance means that it
can take advantage of the better performance and faster connections,
while retaining full backward compatibility. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]
Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
Bluetooth iPod Adapter to be Bundled
with Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
01/06/2005 05:31 PMMac Observer Jan 6 2005 9:30PM GMT
Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter
Review -- Targus Bluetooth Mini Mouse
with Bluetooth Adapter
01/03/2005 02:28 PMNotebookReview.com Jan 3 2005 5:20PM GMT
PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus
PDA News - Palm Bluetooth, PetFrogs,
Bluetooth Virus
06/16/2004 12:46 AMbargainPDA.com Jun 16 2004 3:07AM GMT
Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China
Bluetooth SIG Makes Bluetooth
Specification Available To China
03/19/2005 02:31 AMChinaTechNews.com Mar 19 2005 6:44AM GMT
Spyware, adware plague Windows users
online; Mac OS X users surf freely
Spyware, adware plague Windows users
online; Mac OS X users surf freely
04/20/2004 08:48 AM"Danah on the cultural divide between
Movable Type/TypePad users and
LiveJournal users"
"Danah on the cultural divide between
Movable Type/TypePad users and
LiveJournal users"
01/06/2005 05:05 PMGrok Description matches for Fur for iPods; a Bluetooth rifle; Mac users are more literate
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Fur for iPods; a Bluetooth rifle; Mac users are more literate
