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Swappable battery is a trend that should return- to both phones and electric vehicles.
As long as the timeframe scales with the size of the battery. A phone battery should be swappable in a few minutes. A car battery should be swappable in a day or two. They have to be heavily shielded in case of an accident.
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Swappable battery is a trend that should return- to both phones and electric vehicles.
As long as the timeframe scales with the size of the battery. A phone battery should be swappable in a few minutes. A car battery should be swappable in a day or two. They have to be heavily shielded in case of an accident.
All else equal I'd expect a laptop battery to be easier than a phone battery, and it's definitely possible to design a car battery to swap in minutes even with shielding.
It's what Apple doesn't announce or tell us in their updates that are the most interesting things to discover rather than the features they show us in their keynotes. Keep that in mind.
> Now, Find My combines Find My iPhone with Find My Friends... And it has a new twist because it can now even locate Apple devices that are offline... Let's say you have misplaced your MacBook. So, even when it's offline and sleeping, it sends out a secure Bluetooth beacon that can be detected by other people's Apple devices nearby. Now, they can relay your MacBook's location to the network and ultimately back to you so you can find it. Now, what's amazing is that this whole interaction is end to end encrypted and anonymous.
About two full minutes of Craig explaining it.
Yep, that's not going to spark conspiracy theories and damage the brand at all, just like the backdoor they've recently put in. /s Again, why would $3T company damage its brand like that? It's not "for children" and certainly not to "find your phone". There's something going on there.
Very interesting read. This seems to be implemented as a Bluetooth LE app running on the ultra-low power “always on processor” used for a variety of features, like “wake-up on motion.” Much like an Tile or AirTag is implemented. No comment on what this is capable in the future.. but for now this shows power usage / signal strength / proximity of other “actually on” devices are a limitations of this feature. What’s im…
The chances of you being directly spied on are low. The chances of someone being spied on who could influence the world around you is much higher. So a journalist could be spied on right before they break a big story, potentially leading to a cover up. That’s the problem with stuff like this. Even if you have “nothing to hide” you might rely on someone who legitimately does.
As far as I can tell, in this scenario, the journalist has powered off their phone, ignored the message about "findable when power off," and then is somehow tracked through the BT beacon and Find My network.
Were their phone to be on, all the same tracking would work.
Were they to read the message and go change the settings, this tracking would presumably not work.
That assumes you trust that the "always on processor" only does what it says it does, of course. But in that case, any proprietary device is just as bad as any other. (Many supposedly less-proprietary devices could be sneakily subverted, too, no?)
Very interesting read. This seems to be implemented as a Bluetooth LE app running on the ultra-low power “always on processor” used for a variety of features, like “wake-up on motion.” Much like an Tile or AirTag is implemented. No comment on what this is capable in the future.. but for now this shows power usage / signal strength / proximity of other “actually on” devices are a limitations of this feature. What’s im…
The chances of you being directly spied on are low. The chances of someone being spied on who could influence the world around you is much higher. So a journalist could be spied on right before they break a big story, potentially leading to a cover up. That’s the problem with stuff like this. Even if you have “nothing to hide” you might rely on someone who legitimately does.
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Yes which supports all kinds of functionality that people like. Just because you have a processor on or mic listening for wake words doesn’t mean everything is always being transmitted or evil is being done. State actors could do this selectively regardless even before these features. There have been attacks on Motorola razrs, etc for spying. Long before the smartphone, they just implanted microphones, shine lasers o…
> Yes which supports all kinds of functionality that people like. Just because you have a processor on or mic listening for wake words doesn’t mean everything is always being transmitted or evil is being done. No, but it means that I’m losing agency in whether or not those things can happen. That’s not ok and not benign.
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No, HN will rate limit you if you post too quickly. I've been hit with it when I was involved in a back-and-forth in the past (part of the reason I added a 2-minute delay to my posts becoming visible, plus it gives me a chance to reconsider if they're worth posting or make edits).
I know. I was just being deliberately annoying. Matthew Green's twitter thread includes an incorrect (but he has now walked it back since he's obviously now read the teardown we're supposed to be discussing here and which I've played my fair share in derailing) post about how "a little bird told him it works this way". Just more twitter bravado at the time.