Steve, How many people do you know, who have received viruses via Bluetooth? Seems to me you believe everyone is out to grab your phones contact list! It's healthy to be sceptical and be careful what you download , but when it reaches the point of paranoia, well that's not healthy at all. Dave Hi Dave, Very easy to hack though once in place. I don't think common sense will prevail once hackers know that all they have to do is rename their phone something that sounds like a bus timetable. No, you can keep your Bluetooth common sense, I wouldn't trust it. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave (UK) Sent: Tuesday 20 May 2008 09:41 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? Steve, You've missed my point, when at a bus stop or train station, and I search for bluetooth connections, I will obviously, using common sense, have checked for the name of the connection, say GMPTE Stop 56 Timetable. Then accept that connection. Now how many sad individuals are going to be hanging around, within range, trying to trick me into downloading their viruses? I wonder how the statistics compare, for catching a virus via bluetooth, and catching AIDS from an infected syrinch perposely left on a bus or train seat? As I've said in the past, it needs a bit of common sense. Cheers Dave Hi Dave, Exactly my point. And you are suggesting we accept all Bluetooth connections at a bus stop? All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave (UK) Sent: Tuesday 20 May 2008 08:04 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? But Steve, How does the virus get onto your phone in the first place? you have to accept a bluetooth download don't you? Cheers Dave Hi Dave, It is worse than that. There are Bluetooth viri around now that can literally lift all your contacts from your phone to someone else's. Then you have all kinds of problems especially if you have lots of contacts. Bluetooth is not secure. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave (UK) Sent: Monday 19 May 2008 13:11 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? Well Steve, You are right, that there are some sad gits around with nothing better to do than send out viruses, but as long as common sense is used, there shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure you are going to come back telling me someone can take over control of my phone, and make it connect to the internet and log onto some illegal website, and have me put in prison. Cheers Dave Hi Dave, Would be good, but possibly insecure. If you just download anything by Bluetooth, you are asking for trouble. There are Symbian viri about. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave (UK) Sent: Thursday 15 May 2008 13:57 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? Ray, It would be better if the info could be bluetoothed to your phone at the bus stop! arrive at bus/train station, perform bluetooth search, and download info, done and cost nothing. Dave That's all very well, but the PDf of the bus stop codes on the Network West Midlands site is hardly user friendly, being less than well formatted and a very large pdf too. In my opinion it would be better if this text phone infocould be put up as an HTML page. Cheers, Ray. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? > Hi Alex, > > If you go to the bus operator's web site, all the numbers can be looked > up, > so this is accessible anyway. > > All the best > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > Alexander Shannon > Sent: Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:09 > Subject: [access-uk] Re: How would you use your mobile if you could? > > Hi Damon, > > Having read this thread and thought a bit, I would appreciate it if I > could access data from bus stops via my mobile. 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