Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Lock Your Workstation Using Bluetooth (Phone)

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 by William Edwards

In most enterprise environments, desktop locking is a part of group policy and adds to the security of your network by ensuring that a passer-by can’t use your workstation for nefarious purposes. BlueProximity/BlueLock are the perfect programs to help increase this security to your desktop.  It does so by detecting one of your bluetooth devices, most likely your mobile phone, and keeping track of its distance. If you move away from your computer and the distance is above a certain level (no measurement in meters is possible) for a given time, it automatically locks your desktop (or starts any other shell command you want). You can also use the program to do fun and interesting things such as automatically changing your IM status to away when you leave your computer or playing an audio file to gloriously praise your return.

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The process itself it relatively simple. You just need to pair your phone to your computer, and then install either BlueProximity or BlueLock depending on if you’re using Linux or Windows respectively. If you’re using Linux, you can simply install BlueProximity via your distribution’s package manager.

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt-get install blueproximity

Windows

Install via SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluelock/

From there you can pair your phone, and have fun!

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Taken From: http://www.misdivision.com/blog/how-to-wirelessly-lock-your-workstation-using-blueproximitybluelock-with-your-phone

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