Get ready for Bluejacking

Alberto Escalarte of CacheOp alerts us to the new practice of “ bluejacking , ” which involve using Bluetooth to sneakily broadcast messages to strangers :

[ U]sing a phone with Bluetooth , you’re able to create a phonebook link and compose a substance , eg . ‘ Hello , you ’ve been bluejacked ’ , in the ‘ Name ’ field . Then you’re able to search for other phones with Bluetooth and send that phonebook contact to them . On their speech sound , a message will popup saying “ ‘ Hello , you ’ve been bluejacked ’ has just been received by Bluetooth ” or something along those lines . For most ‘ dupe ’ they will have no idea as to how the message appeared on their telephone set . So , personalise message like ‘ I like your pink top ’ and the startled facial expression that result is where the play really start .

I ’m gon na go out on a branch and auspicate that this wo n’t be very popular here in the US , since you ’d be severely compress to find many people with Bluetooth - enabled mobile phone to do this to .