Using Bluetooth to cut the camera out of cameraphones

Basically reinventing the same bad idea that a company called Iceberg Systems had last year, a trio of university students in Singapore figured out another a way to disable the cameras in cameraphones using Bluetooth. Sounds peachy,
until you realize that special disabling software has to be installed on the phones (plus it only works on a couple of Nokia phones). Since it's hard to imagine the average person knowingly buying a phone with a feature that someone else could disable at will, pretty much the only scenario we could see this being used would be a company that was worried about security risks make sure that this software was loaded onto every cameraphones issued to their employees. Still won't do anything to disable visitors' cameraphones, and besides, if you're that worried about corporate espionage you might as well just opt for cameraless cellphones (palmOne already offers a corporate version of the
Treo 600 that comes without the built-in camera).

[Via PicturePhoning]