QUOTE(denslexusgx470 @ Mar 27 2005, 08:35 AM)
QUOTE(1990LS400 @ Mar 27 2005, 07:43 AM)
Make your Bluetooth phones nondiscoverable!
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how do u do that, keep the bluetooth headset off??
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I was not talking about Bluetooth "headsets" - only Bluetooth "handsets" - the actual phone.
A few weeks ago a co-worker (let's call her SARAH! for the benefit of another co-worker who reads this forum) was showing me her new Nokia phone. I asked her if her phone had Bluetooth and she asked "What is Bluetooth?". I pulled out my Dell Bluetooth/WiFi PDA and found that her phone was "discoverable" by both paired and unpaired devices and that this was the default setting.
I assume that Sarah's phone must have a setting (like my PDA) to allow her phone to be discoverable and paired only with previously paired (with a password) Bluetooth devices. Instead of changing her phone settings so her phone would be discoverable only by previously paired devices, Sarah instead complete turned off Bluetooth in the settings and said that she would never want to use it anyway.
I don't know how wireless Bluetooth "headsets" pair with Bluetooth handsets - I assume the headsets pair to a phone with a password or identifying key so that a headset picks up only your own phone.
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so if the bluetooth is on, anyone with bluetooth or WiFi on their PDA can retrieve my contacts and other stuffs?? (this is interesting becuz my bluetooth is always on)