This is not just for the N95, but for any Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone in general:
Keep your Bluetooth OFF as long as you do not use it!
See the YouTube video covering how a mobile phone can be taken over by another person while the owner does not even notice this.
This a goes a bit deeper than blue-jacking…
(In the video they mention blue-jacking, but this malicious way of taking over one’s cell phone is better known as blue-snarfing)
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This hack cannot work on S60 phone, so no danger for N95.
Only some Bluetooth-enabled phones (Nokia’s 6310, 6310i, 8910 and 8910i and Sony Ericsson’s T610, Z1010 and Z600, all have had firmware upgrade since with corrections) have security issues that make them vulnerable to such a hack.
A good summary can be found here: http://www.thebunker.net/resources/bluetooth
There is a big tendency to over-exagerate the threat for mobiles in term of viruses and hacks, only to be able to increase the market for mobile anti-virus and so on.
There has not been any reported way to take control or infect (by a virus) a S60 phone (2nd or 3rd edition) without user consent…
Posted 05 Jan 2007 at 4:50 am ¶Thanks Cooli!
This is something I have been thinking for a long time. Working on a Mac has made me forget a little about this, but still I feel most anti-virus companies are creating part of the regular viruses, just to keep their business going.
Yeah, that is conspiracy-theory me…
Posted 05 Jan 2007 at 7:55 am ¶