Author Topic: Storing PIN number of Nokia 6700 in a Golf 6  (Read 4217 times)

Offline dubber36

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Re: Storing PIN number of Nokia 6700 in a Golf 6
« Reply #10 on: 17 November 2011, 08:20 »

Not sure what risk there is to saving your home address on your sat nav.

It really only applies to portable sat navs. I had a car broken into when we were at the football at old Trafford years ago. They took the sat nav and a set of keys (for someone elses house). The copper said they would have gone to the home address knowing they had a good couple of hours, except it would have meant a 2 hour trip for them, so they didn't bother. I did worry for a few months after, that someone may come and try those keys in our front door, but no one ever did.
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Re: Storing PIN number of Nokia 6700 in a Golf 6
« Reply #11 on: 17 November 2011, 19:30 »
I releasised you cannot access the phone book info if the phone isn't paired, good security feature.  I have no idea what happens if you try and pair another phone with the same bluetooth name, whether it then gives you the stored name and numbers then, then again not sure if it displays the names so you would know what to call it to try and steal the contact info (have a funny feeling it does).  Anyone got two phones to try it?  then again I am sure they are after the car rather than phoning your mum.


Not really sure what you mean but I've paired mine, my wife and 3 kids phones to the Fiscon bluetooth I have. The stored names all change on the head unit depending on what phone is paired at the time.

When I first set it up a couple of years ago, my wife and I had the same phones with the same bluetooth name (I presume they were the same as we hadn't changed them since purchasing them). Anyway the unit would display the proper stored numbers / names for the phone connected . I hadn't thought about the bluetooth name as being an identifier, I'd always thought the Bluetooth name was just for us (people) to recognise what phone was who's, but the actual phone sent its own unique number like a mac number for any kind of pairing?!?

True the is a unique MAC forgot about that when I was playing with Bluetooth and android the other day.  So even if they did copy the name it would need the correct MAC.
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