geesh... it's bad when you have to learn about technology from TV and CSI. But in doing some searching about Toothing (bluetooth messaging for sex), it appears you have to direct a message to each receiver in the area, vs a local broadcast to all listening devices... which seemed to be implied in tonights episode.
Its all bollocks - search google for toothing hoax
Ash.
Uh, did you notice that they claimed to increase the Bluetooth range of a Blackberry to a mile by sticking a slightly bigger antenna on it? Google "bluesniper" to get a look at what a real setup to get a mile out of Bluetooth looks like.
While CSI is more accurate, technologically speaking, than, say, Star Trek, take everything you see with a dose of salt.
here's the description of the hoax - at least about the sex part -
Futhermore, the person who started the stories about "toothing" admitted it was all a hoax. He had a great quote:
"I suppose its possibl;e that toothing could occur, but the odds are about the same as writing a note asking someone to sleep with you, attaching it to a brick and thowing it out on a crowded dance floor. It isn't going to happen."
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