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Published inDec 2013
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ISBN-139781783559602
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William Pretty
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William Pretty

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
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Bluetooth monitoring


Bluetooth monitoring can be done in much the same way as WiFi monitoring, with a few simple terminal commands.

To scan for Bluetooth devices within range, we use the scan command:

hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:60:57:10:29:50       Joe's 6310i

By running the previous command, we have found Joe's phone and now we can ask some basic questions:

root@beaglebone:~# hcitool  info  00:60:57:10:29:50
Requesting information ...
        BD Address:  00:60:57:10:29:50
        Device Name: Joe's 6310i
        LMP Version: 1.1 (0x1) LMP Subversion: 0x22c
        Manufacturer: Nokia Mobile Phones (1)
        Features: 0xbf 0x28 0x21 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
                <3-slot packets> <5-slot packets> <encryption> <slot offset>
                <timing accuracy> <role switch> <sniff mode> <SCO link>
                <HV3 packets> <CVSD>

We can also "ping" Joe's phone (or any other Bluetooth device where we know the...

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William Pretty

Bill Pretty began his career in electronics in the early 80s with a small telecom start-up company that would eventually become a large multinational. He left this company to pursue a career in commercial aviation in northern Canada. Next, he joined the Ontario Center for Microelectronics, a provincially funded research and development center. Bill left this for a career in the military as a civilian contractor at what was then called Defense Research Establishment Ottawa. Thus began a career that was to span the next 25 years and continues until today. Over the years, Bill acquired extensive knowledge in the field of technical security and started his own company in 2010. This company is called William Pretty Security Inc. and provides support in the form of research and development to various law enforcement and private security agencies. Bill has published and presented a number of white papers on the subject of technical security. For a number of years, he was also a guest presenter at the Western Canada Technical Conference, a law enforcement-only conference held every year in western Canada. A selection of these papers is available for download from his website.
Read more about William Pretty