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#1 Mar 20 2006 at 11:57 PM Rating: Decent
My sister is being taken to court by her "friend" over a bogus $1500 cell phone bill. Aside from regular monthly charges, there's ~$1400 in internet usage on the phones, with ~$1200 of that being on my brother-in-law's phone (my sis and her hubby have their phone under her "friend's" account to avoid outrageous deposits).

The charges are BS. Neither one of them use the internet at all on the phones. When my sis asked SunCom about the charges, the most she was able to find out was how much each phone ran up and that her hubby's phone accessed the internet every day in Feb. to the same two or three IP addresses. That's impossible. With the job my brother has, he has no spare time. Besides, every week in Feb. he missed a couple days of work due to illness, so there's no way he would have been using the phone's net access. Besides, on the weekends, they're usually off hanging out with friends.

Their phones use Bluetooth wireless. I told her to bring up the fact about their ability to be hacked in to. The customer service manager says she never heard about that. In fact, when my sis was talking to SunCom today, their people were saying that even Sony Ericson (the manufacturers of the phones my sis and her hubby have) deny the hackability of bluetooth. Though, one of the store reps said that SE had to recall a line of phones because they were too easy to hack in to.

The other thing is that where my brother works, he's around a s---load of other bluetooth and wireless devices (just to clarify, he works for an electrical company who's installing fire alarm systems into various places like hospitals and nursing homes).

If anyone knows where I can get information to prove that bluetooth equipment can be hacked in to, I would greatly appreciate it.
#2 Mar 21 2006 at 2:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Wow that sounds like a mess.

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