trifinite.blog: Introducing the Car Whisperer at What The Hack

What The Hack, the hacking conference organized on a campsite in Liempde, The Netherlands, is over and according to participants a success. Many lectures and workshops have been given. An interesting presentation is the one about Car Whisperer: trifinite.blog: Introducing the Car Whisperer at What The Hack:

"After introducing the various Bluetooth security flaws (old and new ones) that were identified mainly by the trifinite.group also a new toool has been released. This new toool is called The Car Whisperer and allows people equipped with a Linux Laptop and a directional antenna to inject audio to, and record audio from bypassing cars that have an unconnected Bluetooth handsfree unit running. Since many manufacturers use a standard passkey which often is the only authentication that is needed to connect."

This is definitely nice playing in a traffic jam. In an office environment, the number of bluetooth headsets within reach is still very low and only geeks run arround with this lump on their ears. But the number of bluetooth car kits is quite high and growing. Remember: always check the PIN-code of a new gadget!!