One good thing about Bluetooth

[The Dong]

My new 100m cheapo V2.0+EDR dongle works fine.
I've fiddled recently with other USB devices (USB to Serial and a Wifi 
dongle) to hack new hardware VID&PID's into them, knowing compatible 
chipsets et. al. You know what that does ;)

Well. I was shocked at how generic nearly all Bluetooth dongles are, 
with limits put on the DRIVER software being across the board to prevent 
the average Joe putting X manufacturers software on a cheapo competitors.

Even better, there is this little nugget:

http://www.remote-exploit.org/research/busting_bluetooth_myth.pdf

Ho hum.
Off I go... ;)

There are a few reasons I'm going to hack this dongles vendor string, 
the main one being so it works in Linux without fuss (Back Track 3 
doesn't seem to like the default vendor ID, but should work?)

Doh!