What is "bluesnarfing"?

What is "bluesnarfing"?

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Bluetooth is a wireless technology that allows devices to communicate with each other within close proximity, up to 33 feet. These can be in very small devices, like a phone, or a very large device like a computer or a server. Bluesnarfing is a very malicious kind of connectivity. A Bluetooth device has two states, it's either discoverable or it's not discoverable. If it's discoverable, that means that the user has opted to allow other Bluetooth devices to find it and know that it's on and in proximity. If it's not discoverable, then that means that the user's opted to not be discovered, or not be found within the proximity of another device. Bluesnarfing overrides opting to be discoverable or not, and really, in an unauthorized manner, gains access to the other device via this Bluetooth technology. It can then actually access files or information that is stored on that other device.