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“It’s obviously the user’s responsibility to be using the [phone] properly,” said Laurie Armstrong, manager of media relations and corporate communications at Nokia, Inc. “We’re trying to educate our users...along with that comes education about potential risks.”

Despite those potential risks, Bluejacking’s proponents remain resolute. The “bluejacking ethics” section of the bluejackq.com web site promotes bluejacking as a way to have fun and communicate with other mobile phone and PDA users. It will only take a few misuses of this technology to spoil it for everyone else, the ethics section says, asking users to “try to preserve it for as long as we can.” r

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