Re: [Bluez-users] remote device identification

Marcel Holtmann
2007-05-24T10:08:33Z

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