Originally Posted by Europa
After pairing the superant bluetooth to the phone, it uploads the contacts to the bluetooth speaker phone (but it's optional). This way when a call comes in, instead of the voice saying, "call from 123-456-7890, it says, "call from Mike".
Coolness! So yes, that could indicate a vulnerability if it resembles a phone at the BT level.
Originally Posted by Europa
I don't understand the last part. Just to clarify, you mean they can only listen when your talking to people in the car and NOT while your talking on the phone through the BT?
In almost all cases, assuredly yes. I don't know of a headset that will accept more than one connection at a time.
Originally Posted by Europa
Do you avoid bluetooth because of that vunerability?
I mean people can easily listen in to your conversations over cordless phones, but that doesn't stop the general population from using them. I'm always cautious about what I say over the phone, regardless if it's cell, home landline, home cordless, BT etc. You never know who's listening.
No. The range of BT is so limited as to render a monitoring session mostly useless. Someone would have to follow you quite obviously or be constantly aiming a 2.4Ghz beam antenna at you from whatever distance to monitor more than a snippet of conversation. And, at that, in practical terms, this is likely to be random eavesdropping, not targeted eavesdropping. I don't think anyone will hear much more of your conversation than they would if they were standing near you in a store. They move on, you move on.
Now, if you get a police force, the FBI, or a nation-state involved..... But I'll leave those considerations as an exercise to the conspiracy theorists amongst us.