My cousin in Seattle kept telling me to turn off Bluetooth when I'm not using it, and I finally listened after my phone tried to connect to a weird 'Free_WiFi' device at the airport.

Has anyone else caught their phone trying to pair with something sketchy like that?

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Yeah, I read an article about that last month. They said some of those weird open Bluetooth names are actually data skimmers. They sit in busy places and try to pull info from any device that pings them. Your cousin is totally right, it's a good habit to just turn it off. I keep mine off now unless I'm actually using my earbuds.

the_pat5d ago

Great, now I'm paranoid about my toaster.