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AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by pxmpxm »

valvar wrote: post #80
teakettle42 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is “cop shoots bike thief” something you actually think is common enough to note? This implies a concerning reality departure.

I find the wording itself interesting. I guess it's a sort of class-tribalism that's developed to the point where it's so ingrained in some people's mindsets that they causally append bizarre comments like that to their sentences.

Broadcasting your bona fides far and wide is certainly en vogue in certain circles; anecdotally speaking, the incidence of people manifesting their vanilla pronouns is orders of magnitude higher than otherwise.

Seems it's on par with yelling go packers or similar at a crowded bar.

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by withinboredom »

rubicon33 wrote: post #77
midasuni wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US cops kill 15 times as many civilians as most civilised countries.

> "fairly common"? You are about as likely to get hit and killed by lightning as you are to die from being shot by police. Chance of getting hit by lightning: 1 in 500,00 = 2.0 * 10^-6 [1] Chance of getting shot and killed by police (2020): 993 in 331,449,281 = 2.99 x 10^-6 [2] Hardly seems "fairly common" now does it? And, your second post about the relative frequency to other countries is a different statement, one…

Both those denominators are waaaay off. Lightning doesn’t have the equal probability to strike everywhere and anywhere and I imagine there are relatively few people in the path of a lightning strike (grounded or near a ground) when there is a high probability for lightning… so if you’re going to use people as a denominator, it’s probably closer to 1 million.

Also, very few people stick around when the cops are coming after someone and the denominator should be people the cops are going after (arrests + stops + deaths from cops). In general, cops don’t just randomly start shooting people in their line of site…

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by cutemonster »

jdavis703 wrote: post #75
teakettle42 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is “cop shoots bike thief” something you actually think is common enough to note? This implies a concerning reality departure.

At least where I live it is. I’ve personally witnessed two instances of excessive force and been a victim of excessive force myself. And the last police shooting was ultimately about stolen property. They killed a father to be and a fetus over a suspected stolen car. So no, I haven’t departed reality. But yes, not all police departments are like this (mine specifically has been under federal oversight for years).

> At least where I live it is

In the US? I wonder which part of the US (if I may ask)

> last police shooting .. killed a father ..

How sad that they did that. (If it got covered by any news, it'd be interesting (or is there a better word) to read)

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by withinboredom »

bogwog wrote: post #58
jounker wrote: post #44

Great. So you just made an app that helps bike thieves find the airtag hidden in my bicycle.

Why would you assume the bike thief doesn't have an iPhone?

Because the bad guys never have one in the movies /s

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by Thorrez »

cutemonster wrote: post #93
jdavis703 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least where I live it is. I’ve personally witnessed two instances of excessive force and been a victim of excessive force myself. And the last police shooting was ultimately about stolen property. They killed a father to be and a fetus over a suspected stolen car. So no, I haven’t departed reality. But yes, not all police departments are like this (mine specifically has been under federal oversight for years).

> At least where I live it is In the US? I wonder which part of the US (if I may ask) > last police shooting .. killed a father .. How sad that they did that. (If it got covered by any news, it'd be interesting (or is there a better word) to read)

I don't know if this is the case, but it seems to match:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/10/oakland-eri...

https://www.ktvu.com/news/attorney-for-brianna-colombo-confi...

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by nullc »

mwint wrote: post #71
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is trivial to damage airtag to disable the dynamic. So a committed stalker will do it without difficulty.

At some point, a committed stalker has access to lots of other options for stalking that are easier than the AirTag game.

What other options allow them to embed a tiny almost invisible device in a piece of clothing or a toy and learn its location from anywhere in the world?

GPS trackers are larger, require a fair amount of power (big battery), don't work well indoors, and require cellular service.

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by Thorrez »

mrpoopy wrote: post #89

So if someone steals my air tagged device they can just turn it off. Nice

I think the marketed goal of AirTag isn't to prevent theft, it's to help find lost (but not stolen) objects, like if you left your keys somewhere.

Re: AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories

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Post by tyingq »

andreareina wrote: post #72
teakettle42 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is “cop shoots bike thief” something you actually think is common enough to note? This implies a concerning reality departure.

The police department is recommending people store their documents in an always-visible pouch to avoid getting shot. https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ooc/news-releases/Pages/dps-par...

And they called the pouches "not reaching pouches". I wonder if they get the irony of "not reaching".
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