[access-uk] Re: Uses for Bluetooth and GPS equipped mobile phones
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:05:42 -0000
Hi Dave,
That would be a big security hole in my view. If you are asked if you want
to download something by Bluetooth and you don't know it is going to come,
don't accept it. It could be a Symbian or Windows Smart Phone virus. I
have had that very thing happen to me on a train, when I left Bluetooth on
once by accident. I said no to the connection, but I sure wouldn't like
this method to be widely adopted. It could encourage all kinds of malice,
and Bluetooth isn't secure anyway. I even heard of a program that can
hijack all your contacts from your phone, just because you left Bluetooth
on.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ankers, Dave (UK)
Sent: 30 January 2008 15:36
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Uses for Bluetooth and GPS equipped mobile phones
This thread is a carry over from the off track virgin train saga.
Seems easy to me, walk in a Shop, Restaurant, Train, Hospital even, and
receive a message asking if you would like to download a file by Bluetooth.
It could be a list of items on special offer, a menu or even directions in
order to get to the department you want in a hospital or any other large
building.
Take it a stage further and install transmitters in buildings, that your GPS
or GPRS, whatever the difference is. can use to direct you to where you wish
to go.
Dave
There are ways to send messages to any Bluetooth devices in an area.
Some companies already experimented with this by sending advertisements to
any Bluetooth devices. For example when I went to see snow patrol in the o2
arena when I turned Bluetooth on my phone I got sent some messages about
other events that they thought might interest me by o2.
Vanja
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Virgin Trains thread that went off track!
> Scuse my ignorance on wireless communication, but Dave suggests using
> Blue Tooth as a means of getting menus, passenger info, etc. to
> passengers, and in the context of our needs.
>
> Would this actually be Blue Tooth, or maybe Wi-Fi? Either way, if it
> would work, then seems a good idea to me; but am I missing something
> here?
>
> Cheers,
>
>>From Ray
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> Ankers, Dave (UK)
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Virgin Trains thread that went off track!
>
>
>
> Please accept my apologies too. Will try to stay on topic, only life
> would be so boring without a bit of harmless banter and imagination.
> Back on topic, hands up all those who own a phone equipped with
> Bluetooth! yes loads of you, well, what if the train companies and
> many other companies for that matter, made available Bluetooth
> downloads of menus and other services so you could hear them through
> your phone, and it cost nothing.
>
> Dave
>
> My sincere apologies everyone for the banter between a few of us
> today, of which I was a part, that went off track in the midst of a
> thread about Virgin Trains. Nice though it is to share a bit of
> harmless fun on an otherwise extremely dreary day, I appreciate this
> is a list for access technology and, as such, should remain on topic
> at all times.
>
> Hands up! sorry! (smiles).
>
> Jackie
>
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