Three weeks ago, a hacker with the handle 'Dagobert' was able to retrieve numbers from the phones of three policemen via the BlueBug vulnerability in the area of the german government buildings. Due to a report of this incidence in the german news magazine Spiegel, the german television channel Sat-1 requested a demonstration of the long distance snarf experiment.

Yesterday, a team of three people visited me in Salzburg in order to document the long-distance attacking experiment. In the experiment, we used a bluetoooned Bluetooth Class-1 adaptor together with a home-made helical antenna. This antenna was build together with students of the technical program of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and Technologies that also helped us during the experiment.

From the Salzburg Fortress, we were attacking a phone that was located on the big chess-board on the 600 meter away Kapitelplatz. The weather on this day was just perfect and the experiment worked out better than expected.

Pictures of that experiment are in the trifinite.album and the show that this experiment was filmed for is called Planetopia and will air on Sunday the 26th of June 2005 at about 10:45 pm on the german television channel Sat-1.