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Article:
  Is Bluetooth a Viable Alternative to 802.11b?
Subject:   Bluetooth safer than WiFi
Date:   2003-01-29 16:56:31
From:   anonymous2
802.11b was designed as an open architecture - easy to add new machines, but hard to lock it down (as many many articles/web pages/shows have shown). Bluetooth is designed to be more secure - the required 'pairing' before devices will even think about talking...and I _love_ the ~30 foot range (on the class 3 devices) - it's enough to allow all the computers in my pad to talk to each other but nobody "driving by" will be able to see a thing!