August 2003 - Bluetooth-dev

Trapping bluetooth keyboard events
by Eliot Simcoe 09 Aug '03

09 Aug '03

Greetings all! I just bought the Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and I would like to use the "special" keys on the top of it (those for iTunes control and Mail/Web/Home/Messenget(iChat)). I read a post that said these events are passed on to but not used by the system. Is there some way to trap these events? WIll I need to go to the kernel level? I figure there's got to be some way to do it. Thanks for any advice information you can provide. -- EliotSimcoe _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Bluetooth security talk at Defcon
by feorlen 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Bruce Potter, from the Shmoo Group, gave a talk about Bluetooth security at Defcon this weekend. A lot was intro for folks who don't know much about it, but he also talked about his sniffing tool. It's called Bluesniff and it's a front-end for redfang, a fairly primitive tool released recently. (See this article at http://www.securityfocus.com/news/5896.) These tools are both at the proof-of-concept stage and their authors are attempting to get people talking seriously about Bluetooth security. Bruce's comments about possible exploits mostly were how applications are vulnerable because of poor or nonexistent implementation of security features. Also, Bluetooth is a particularly attractive target because the data passed over the air is very personalized, and could be used by a motivated attacker to track individuals. You can get the presentation and Bluesniff at the website: http://bluesniff.shmoo.com/ Andrea _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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Application doesn't launch when a device attempts to connect to the service
by Jorge Alfonso Briones Garcia 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Hello, I'm developing an application that I want to be launched when a remote device attempts to connect to the Bluetooth service. Then, I have added the "LocalAttributes" property to control the local behavior of the service. I have specified the values for the two local attributes: "Persistent" (YES) and "TargetApplication" (application absolute path). The problem is that the target application doesn't get launched when the remote device attempts to connect to the service. The application that I want to be launched uses IOBluetoothGetObjectIDFromArguments() and IOBluetoothL2CAPChannelCreateFromObjectID() for the L2CAP channel creation Do I need to setup something else in addition to the "LocalAttributes" property? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Jorge Alfonso Briones Garcia _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev(a)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

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