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  • Description
  • Prevalence
  • Response
  • Bluesniping
  • In popular culture
  • See also
  • References

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Bluesnarfing is the unauthorized access of information from a wireless device through a Bluetooth connection, often between phones, desktops, laptops, and PDAs (personal digital assistant). This allows access to calendars, contact lists, emails and text messages, and on some phones, users can copy pictures and private videos. Both Bluesnarfing and Bluejacking exploit others' Bluetooth connections without their knowledge. While Bluejacking is essentially harmless as it only transmits data to the target device, Bluesnarfing is the theft of information from the target device.

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

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