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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] remote device identification
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180001313.26519.22.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57c68ddc0705240306s1c9fc345x860dc75b9955d6f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

>               I recently came upon this white paper name as
> blueprinting (titled Remote Device Identification based on Bluetooth
> Fingerprinting Techniques) which presents a way of identifying remote
> device by using sdp discovery records. 
> 
> What this paper claims is that by using combination of first 3 bytes
> of bluetooth address and number obtained by multiplying service record
> handle and rfcomm channel of OBEX push services one can identify the
> brand or make of the device. 
> 
> I would like to know how reliable this method is  , also can u suggest
> other techniques which can accomplish such thing.

it is not really reliable anymore. Too many vectors changed over the
last 2 years.

Regards

Marcel



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 10:06 [Bluez-users] remote device identification siddhant tewari
2007-05-24 10:08 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2007-05-24 10:12   ` siddhant tewari
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-06 22:28 Mikael Lindqvist

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