On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:31, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > No. There are three "bands" that bluetooth uses. The first is for "local" > communication such as between your headset and a phone on your belt. > Range is about one meter. This band is legal in Israel. > > The next two bands, designed for connection to you phone and a computer > with a 2-3 meter range and all the computers in a room, are not legal > to use, import or sell in Israel. Thanks for your reply, but now I'm confused. What are all the dongles being sold in stores? I realize that there may be some stores selling these things illegally, as you say. But I doubt that large chains like BUG and Office Depot would sell illegal devices. Also, a quick search on ZAP shows 133 devices available. Are they all illegal?
BTW - some of the dongles on ZAP claim to have 100 meter range. What's that all about? > Another problem is that bluetooth was designed like Sendmail. The concept > of people using it to attack your system, steal bandwidth for kidde porn > and spam, etc was not in the designer's minds. There is no security > in current bluetooth implementations. OK - that I know. But with such a short range, I don't see a real security problem using one to sync my PALM in my home. After all, if the range is only 3 meters, the potential hacker would have to be in the same room as me. And, of course, I'd remove the dongle when not in use ;-) -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
