Bluejacking with the BlueSniper Bluetooth Hacker “Sniper Rifle” Can Sniff Bluetooth Devices Up to 1/2 Mile Away   - 24,970 Views, 11 Comments

Summary: The BlueSniper Bluetooth sniffing and hacking "sniper rifle" is truly the Bluetooth hacker's Bluetooth hack. Equipped with a yagi antenna, and powered by a little bitty Gumstix motherboard, the BlueSniper can detect vulnerable Bluetooth devices up to a kilometer away. ...

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The BlueSniper Bluetooth sniffing and hacking “sniper rifle” is truly the Bluetooth hacker’s Bluetooth hack. Equipped with a yagi antenna, and powered by a little bitty Gumstix motherboard, the BlueSniper can detect vulnerable Bluetooth devices up to a kilometer away. A Bluejacker’s paradise.

In addition, the BlueSniper, developed by Los Angeles think-tank Flexilis, will list the services of all open devices it finds, making the devices vulnerable to all manner of exploitation.

According to Flexilis’ John Hering, “With multiple ‘guns’ it would be possible to track a single Bluetooth device as the person walked around. In less than a few minutes, 20 devices were detected all at distances over a half mile away.”

What’s more, all of this sniped data is displayed on the attached laptop, and can be stored for future reference.
Within what seemed like minutes of the BlueSniper’s debut, webpages sprang up with instructions on how to build your own BlueSniper.

Still, not something which Aunty would recommend, as the similarity in appearance to a real sniper rifle is striking, for obvious reasons, and the authorities might tend to ask questions later.

Bluejacking with the BlueSniper Bluetooth Hacker “Sniper Rifle” Can Sniff Bluetooth Devices Up to 1/2 Mile Away

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11 Comments »

  1. Bluetooth is a security risc! You can sniff out with some Utilities, you can download files from mobile phones or other…

    Comment by coolsims — 8/4/2005 @ 1:54 am

  2. it is gooooood

    Comment by Tom — 9/9/2005 @ 12:02 pm

  3. lol, who posted the other comments? cavemen?

    Comment by Geo — 4/4/2007 @ 8:39 am

  4. i want bluesnipper

    Comment by microtek — 11/12/2007 @ 4:20 pm

  5. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Comment by microtek — 11/12/2007 @ 4:22 pm

  6. sssssss

    Comment by m — 1/23/2008 @ 2:32 am

  7. aaa

    Comment by lawrence — 2/26/2008 @ 9:32 pm

  8. lets hack!!!

    Comment by caillan — 3/15/2008 @ 9:04 pm

  9. i want blue sniper

    Comment by caillan — 3/15/2008 @ 9:05 pm

  10. it works

    Comment by mwema — 4/19/2008 @ 7:38 am

  11. please send me every updates

    Comment by mwema — 4/19/2008 @ 7:42 am

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