From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [162.83.95.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.52]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 350428 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:35:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4507604E.5090104@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:35:10 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Bluetooth security References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/11/06 02:02 pm, Doug LaRue thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:51:16 -0400 > > Believe nothing is secure, yes even wires are not secure, and you'll have to accept that > there is some acceptable level of security for each and every type of connection and > session of data transmission across that connection. > > Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself, Doug. > One more thing, this all reminds me of how people seem to now associate credit card fraud > with "identity theft". I don't know who started it but the press is must plain dumb about > incorrectly labeling things as "identity theft". And they did a nice job at labeling Bluetooth with > "insecurity". There were a few stories of how some techie was able to find and connect to > cell phones running Bluetooth and do things like make calls and download phone numbers. > There were all cases where the phone or phone user left the Bluetooth radio in Discoverable > Mode. It was like placing your laptop on you front door landing inside your house and leaving > your front door wide open and blaming your door lock manufacturer when the laptop is stolen. > > Perfect analogy. People are the most insecure components, not the technology. Heck, turn the phone off if you're that worried!! :-D > Lewis has it right and if you don't believe that, Google is your friend( ie search for more info ). > > ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------