Using Bluetooth to locate stealable items

It's a bit like the idea of putting RFID tags in cash to
let muggers know who
to target:

  http://www.c
ambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2005/08/17/06967453-800
2-45f8-b520-66b9bed6f29f.lpf

  MOBILE phone technology is being used by thieves to seek
out and steal
  laptops locked in cars in Cambridgeshire.

  [..]
  
  But thieves in Cambridge have cottoned on to an
alternative use for the
  function, using it as a scanner which will let them know
if another
  Bluetooth device is locked in a car boot.

  Det Sgt Al Funge, from Cambridge's crime investigation
unit, said: "There
  have been a number of instances of this new technology
being used to
  identify cars which have valuable electronics, including
laptops, inside.

  [...]

Peter.

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