[Bluez-users] Confessions of an ignoramus - what is all this PIN stuff?

Timothy Murphy
2004-08-26T14:02:13Z

On Thursday 26 August 2004 13:10, Steven Singer wrote:

> A strong BT PIN [1] should not be your main line of defence, it should
> be merely your first line of defence.

I find this PIN business very hard to follow.
Is there a simple account somewhere?
(Please don't refer me to the Bluetooth Spec
which I find more or less unintelligble.)

I have two laptops, martha and william (my grandparents).
I first linked to my Nokia 6310 with martha.
For some reason the phone thinks william is also martha.
Is this something to do with the fact that I always use the same PIN?

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