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Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone Jammer

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Blueserker passes on information from an article in Singapore’s Asia One about three students from Temasek Polytechnic who have figured out a way to disable the camera function of select Nokia phones via Bluetooth. While the concept itself is interesting – enter a ‘no camera’ zone, and your phone disables itself automagically – the fact that Nokia’s Bluetooth implementation allows a remote user to disable functions is probably the more immediate issue here. The affected phones are the 6600 and the 7610 – an attempt to shut down a 7650 failed.

Read – Asian students figure out how to shut down cameraphone voyeurs [Blueserker]

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