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And AirTags even alert those (iPhone users) being tracked so they are even less practical
Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
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And AirTags even alert those (iPhone users) being tracked so they are even less practical
Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
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And AirTags even alert those (iPhone users) being tracked so they are even less practical
Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
Depends on where you live. I live in a fairly affluent area, and everyone has iPhones.
Surely Apple can use information from their Find My account to figure out who the AirTag was registered to. Even if the tag has been destroyed. That should be trivially easy, right?
From here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212227
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How so? You can get GPS trackers for less than an airtag
Most GPS trackers however need a SIM card, which would be traceable.
Some countries might have some sort of construction where you need to provide some form of identification but that only applies to the most obvious avenues to buy a SIM-card for the public. It's not like the shady MFA-farms with the 100-modem appliances are fed by a person actually buying 100 SIM-cards without getting caught or something like that... (and then there is false identification which often is a crime by itself but misbehaving persons might not really care about that)
AirTags in this case are just blamed because they are actually detectable by normal users, and that makes it an 'impression' problem, not a new problem.
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And AirTags even alert those (iPhone users) being tracked so they are even less practical
Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
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Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
Maybe some sort of audible alarm could be in order. Let say every 1-4h hours.
However, it's possible to damage the speaker, so it becomes silent, without damaging the AirTag itself.
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Except for the folks who aren't iPhone users, which is the majority of people.
Maybe some sort of audible alarm could be in order. Let say every 1-4h hours.
this is hardly a new attack when GPS trackers existed before
The impression most people have is that this is highly available, small, easy to use, cheap, and there is plausible deniability in the intention of purchasing one. Now, there may be other solutions with some or all of those qualities to varying degrees, but the simple fact that the impression is popular necessarily means that it will see usage in cases where the perpetrator would otherwise not have committed the act.…