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What now, no bluetooth?
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<blockquote data-quote="themidge" data-source="post: 827586" data-attributes="member: 33087"><p>There sure is a lot of ignorance in this thread. Bluetooth is not a device that goes in your ear it is a wireless technology that can be used to share files and information. The scanners are paired to whatever the screen/module is called with bluetooth. Lets say you wanted to share a file between two bluetooth phones, both would have to turn their bluetooth antennas on. The phone receiving the data would have to make itself "discoverable" meaning visible to other bluetooth devices. When the phone sending the file looks for other bluetooth devices it finds the discoverable phone and "pairs" or connects to it. The two devices prompt eachother asking if the passkey on one matches the passkey on the other. Accept it on both devices and they are paired and connected. Keeping a device out of discoverable mode is one measure of security with bluetooth. Due to the nature of the scanners going out of range often they are probably permanently left in discoverable mode leaving them vulnerable to interacting with any other bluetooth device. While it is far fetched someone would take the time to figure out a way to sabotage the system, the possibility exists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="themidge, post: 827586, member: 33087"] There sure is a lot of ignorance in this thread. Bluetooth is not a device that goes in your ear it is a wireless technology that can be used to share files and information. The scanners are paired to whatever the screen/module is called with bluetooth. Lets say you wanted to share a file between two bluetooth phones, both would have to turn their bluetooth antennas on. The phone receiving the data would have to make itself "discoverable" meaning visible to other bluetooth devices. When the phone sending the file looks for other bluetooth devices it finds the discoverable phone and "pairs" or connects to it. The two devices prompt eachother asking if the passkey on one matches the passkey on the other. Accept it on both devices and they are paired and connected. Keeping a device out of discoverable mode is one measure of security with bluetooth. Due to the nature of the scanners going out of range often they are probably permanently left in discoverable mode leaving them vulnerable to interacting with any other bluetooth device. While it is far fetched someone would take the time to figure out a way to sabotage the system, the possibility exists. [/QUOTE]
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