Re: [privacy] Nokia develops a new, short-range wireless technology

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

The big problem I've seen with Bluetooth is cellphones and hands free
systems in cars don't play together very nicely.  For example, the
Toyota/Lexus nav system will crash when it is asked to download an address
book from many brands of cellphones via Bluetooth.  Compatibility testing
doesn't seem to be one of the industry's strong points.

This new Nokia technology is interesting because it makes it even more
likely that we will be carrying around little radio transmitters that
broadcast unique ID numbers that can be easily tracked with load cost access
points.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Murphy [mailto:mattmurphy () kc rr com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:15 PM
To: Dude VanWinkle
Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [privacy] Nokia develops a new, short-range wireless technology

On 10/3/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> I thought the biggest drawback to bluetooth was the security issues,
> like bbproxy and others.
>
> I guess nokia (and most consumers) only care about power and speed :-(
>
> -JP

I suspect you're partly right.  The other likely possibility here is
that the security problem is "harder" than the speed/power problems to
solve.  It would make sense to downplay the security problems of
Bluetooth if Nokia has no real solution for them.
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