Alberto Escalarte of CacheOp alerts us to the new practice of âbluejacking,â which involves using Bluetooth to surreptitiously send messages to strangers:
[U]sing a phone with Bluetooth, you can create a phonebook contact and write a message, eg. âHello, youâve been bluejackedâ, in the âNameâ field. Then you can search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them. On their phone, a message will popup saying ââHello, youâve been bluejackedâ has just been received by Bluetoothâ or something along those lines. For most âvictimsâ they will have no idea as to how the message appeared on their phone. So, personalised messages like âI like your pink topâ and the startled expressions that result is where the fun really starts.
Iâm gonna go out on a limb and predict that this wonât be very popular here in the US, since youâd be hard pressed to find many people with Bluetooth-enabled cellphones to do this to.
