Althema

If you use anything that uses bluetooth, be it a cell phone with blue tooth headset or a PDA, never speak or type personal information in areas where there may be a lot of blue tooth connections nearby.

I use a plam treo with a Motorola blue tooth handless headset, and neighbors can hear me talking to people on my phone. The police scanners pick up the calls somehow. They do not pick up the calls if I am not using my blue tooth headsets (now I wonder if truck drivers can hear my calls when I am using my headset for driving)

Also, my husband has a mac with blue tooth....and was able to get access to my files on both my palm treo and my palm TX, just by browsing. I do not know how he did it, I use the TX for my password storage and am glad he caught it before I went to some large town where blue tooth connections are everywhere.

I now use the TX only at home using hotsync only with bluetooth turned off, and my Treo for things that do not need to be secured.

Blue tooth is new to me, but I can see how it opens doors for all sorts of fraud if one is not careful.

qaswer

I haven't heard bad about bluetooths and in my thinking these were a good and secure way to communicate but i am worried to hear about your experience . I think there should be some more secure devices to prevent such problems,

SoulasisMusic

I'll be sure to be careful when using my bluetooth. I had never heard of problems like that. I guess that's what I'm hear for. To find out what I need to be cautious about.

IrDA

Sending viruses via Bluetooth enabled mobile phones is common practice. Thats done to enter into messages of other people's mobile, as well as to enter into files stored in memory card. Thats why I keep my mobile's bluetooth off most of the times.

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toukmaria

The most common problem in my country is that people send virus by bluetooth.
that's why I rarely use it.

chargebacks

That's not good, I was planning on a Bluetooth headset

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tilapia

LOL my phone do not have bluetooth.When I bought it I was not quite aware of mobile phone faetures and it only ahve 2.5mb of memory and it has a camera.

udit

Hey i really took bluetooth as secure medium ...... but now i ll be carefull while using it .... thanks for sharing your expiriences.

swapnil90

Never experienced such a problem !!

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business

Never heard of that before, but I will take that into account. That does sound possible. many thanks!

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