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__NOTOC__ thumb|This Siemens M75 is bluejacking the Sony Ericsson K600i pictured below. thumb|This Sony_Ericsson_K600|Sony Ericsson K600i is being bluejacked by the Siemens M75 pictured above. The text at the bottom of the screen reads "Add to contacts?" in Norwegian.

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Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to bluejacking, and connects out to Denmark, mobile phone and International Standard Book Number.

Vinony files it under Bluetooth and Spamming.

Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.

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hijacking
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7 sections
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  • Origins
  • Usage
  • Companies
  • BluejackQ
  • Fictional reference in ''Person of Interest''
  • See also
  • References

__NOTOC__ thumb|This Siemens M75 is bluejacking the Sony Ericsson K600i pictured below. thumb|This Sony_Ericsson_K600|Sony Ericsson K600i is being bluejacked by the Siemens M75 pictured above. The text at the bottom of the screen reads "Add to contacts?" in Norwegian.

Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field (i.e., for bluedating) to another Bluetooth-enabled device via the OBEX protocol.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bluejacking” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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