Bluejacking in Syria . . . .
Warning: The following post contains references to lewd and sexual material; however, I am merely reporting the facts as I see them . . . from a distance.
For those of you - like me - who had no idea that technology had opened up another useless valve for pornography and entertainment and occasional business/educational productivity . . . well, let me give you a brief explanation:
bluejacking pp. Temporarily hijacking another person's cell phone by sending it an anonymous text message using the Bluetooth wireless networking system.
—bluejack v.
—bluejacker n.
another bit on bluejacking from wikipedia is nice and to the point.
Anyway, the point is a person can sit in a cafe, give their phone an ID, and then proceed to send and receive anonymous text messages or even better yet full-on video clips from strangers. I stumbled upon this a few days ago while I was hanging out with some Syrian friends in a cafe. My friend got this message (obviously in Arabic) making some kind of sexual 'hey you' pass at him. This opened up a whole discussion and I discovered that Syrians, armed to the hilt with $250 Nokia mobile phones, are doing crazy things with them. Aside from using them to flirt and plot sexual trysts, meet new friends, and play tricks on old friends . . . . they are also sending a great deal of wonderfully offensive material to each other. Case(s) in point: another Syrian friend of mine - after I asked him about this whole bluejacking thing - showed me a series of videos he's been randomly sent by strangers in cafes/university classes. Evidently, (some) young Syrians are using these phones to take video (porn) and then send it to each other randomly. One short clip allegedly featured a well-known Syrian soap actress in a (cough) series of comprising positions that were similar to but better picture quality than the Paris Hilton video that was widely circulated on the internet. Several other clips seemed to be random: along the lines of "Syrian Girls Gone Wild and Digital. (Sorry Syrians, not all of the 'cultural films' come from Lebanon) Another clip involved a man falling down some stairs. Still another clip, entitled Abu Ghraib, was a bit of a satire, showing a woman kicking a naked and chained-up man in the genitals - think America's Funniest Home Videos on crack. Again, I'm comforted that young men everywhere love the same stupid nonsense.
For those of you - like me - who had no idea that technology had opened up another useless valve for pornography and entertainment and occasional business/educational productivity . . . well, let me give you a brief explanation:
bluejacking pp. Temporarily hijacking another person's cell phone by sending it an anonymous text message using the Bluetooth wireless networking system.
—bluejack v.
—bluejacker n.
another bit on bluejacking from wikipedia is nice and to the point.
Anyway, the point is a person can sit in a cafe, give their phone an ID, and then proceed to send and receive anonymous text messages or even better yet full-on video clips from strangers. I stumbled upon this a few days ago while I was hanging out with some Syrian friends in a cafe. My friend got this message (obviously in Arabic) making some kind of sexual 'hey you' pass at him. This opened up a whole discussion and I discovered that Syrians, armed to the hilt with $250 Nokia mobile phones, are doing crazy things with them. Aside from using them to flirt and plot sexual trysts, meet new friends, and play tricks on old friends . . . . they are also sending a great deal of wonderfully offensive material to each other. Case(s) in point: another Syrian friend of mine - after I asked him about this whole bluejacking thing - showed me a series of videos he's been randomly sent by strangers in cafes/university classes. Evidently, (some) young Syrians are using these phones to take video (porn) and then send it to each other randomly. One short clip allegedly featured a well-known Syrian soap actress in a (cough) series of comprising positions that were similar to but better picture quality than the Paris Hilton video that was widely circulated on the internet. Several other clips seemed to be random: along the lines of "Syrian Girls Gone Wild and Digital. (Sorry Syrians, not all of the 'cultural films' come from Lebanon) Another clip involved a man falling down some stairs. Still another clip, entitled Abu Ghraib, was a bit of a satire, showing a woman kicking a naked and chained-up man in the genitals - think America's Funniest Home Videos on crack. Again, I'm comforted that young men everywhere love the same stupid nonsense.
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