How to Bluejack
Many new words sneak into the English dictionary every year, but rarely does a technological craze make it into he hallowed oxford English press, but surely Bluejacking must be in the running for 2003/04, its the wireless equivalent to knock down ginger.
So on to the main issue how to bluejack?
However Bluejacking uses the start of the pairing process to deliver its payload, in order for a device to be paired it must be made "visible" this means any Bluetooth device can search for and find the device which is listed by its name and then attempt to pair, of course the pair will only be accepted if the other user agrees.
Bluejacking relies on the vast numbers of mobile phones that are shipped as "visible" from the factory, or the users who leave their phones set to visible for ease of use, instead of searching for a phone to pair with a bluejacker will search for phones within range and then send a contact from their phones memory which will appear as a message on the screen of the other mobile.
This unsolicited message looks to all intents like an SMS but the user is mystified as it does not have a phone number or indeed anyway of tracing its sender, messages tend to be quite limited as most mobiles will only display the first line of the contact on the screen, but that is normally room to come up with something amusing.
Time for the easy steps that show you how to bluejack.
1. Select your area carefully, you need an area with plenty of mobile users, stations and areas with business men and women are best but supermarkets and other places with large groups of people are also good.
2. You'll want to pre prepare a few contacts to send, fill in the first line and perhaps some of the other parameters like email, but most bluejack victims will only see the first line, it is possible to send photos too this can be great once you have identified a victim.
3. Scan for Bluetooth enabled phones, go into your phone's contacts select the card you have already made and select "send via Bluetooth" this will start a search for all Bluetooth devices within a 10 meter range.
4. You will see a list of the phone names in range, pay attention as these will often be the phone model name useful for identifying who you have bluejacked or at least amusing to find who has a phone named "sexy bum", quickly select one phone and send the contact, Bluetooth will take a while to deliver the contact so speed is important to get your victim before they move out of range.
5. Having sent the contact you should get the confirmation "card sent" and then listen for the SMS message tone of your victims phone. Success you've Bluejacked!
6. If you can identify who you managed to Bluejack then you can follow up with a specific message which will really freak out your victim, for example " hey that's a funky hat" or "what train are you catching" the best messages are often very humorous and should amuse your victim.
Bluesnarfing and Bluestumbling are both more intrusive uses of Bluetooth technology, Bluesnarfing is the process of connecting to a mobile device and copying the contents without authorisation, this vulnerability is limited to a handful of Sony Ericsson and Nokia Phones. Bluetumbling is similar but the vulnerability can only be exploited by a device that was previously paired but has since been removed from the mobile device list, so not really anything to lose sleep over.
