On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:49:57AM -0500, Al Jachimiak wrote:
> I was wondering about my Bluetooth keyboard and curious about the possibility 
> of passive Bluetooth key logging. 
> 
> Has anyone played with capturing and analyzing Bluetooth packets?
> 
> I was checking out the Bluetooth article on Wikipedia, but it wasn't really 
> specific about encryption  it anything past v2.1.

It's sniffable.  Look up 'ubertooth'; I have one, I'll bring it to a
meeting.

BT is harder to sniff b/c the protocol is weird and jumps around, but
it doesn't mean it's secure.

There's also work on spoofing either end of a BT connection, and some
BT keyboards allow upload of firmware over BT.

-m

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