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Yes, but that’s probably a larger and more expensive device.
I don't think the limiting factor in child abductions is a few hundred dollars in the kidnapper's possession.
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You're surprised a company making a product wants consumers to buy their product? How does the "slowing down" story keep coming up when it's clear it was the best solution to the problem "what to do when users have the same battery for 3+ years and the device literally cannot sustain itself anymore".
Not surprised, just a hypothesis on hidden tactics behind. As for your question, do you really trust in Apple's PR? "Privacy, green, ethical labor" Oh almost forgot, another case: 3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...
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Why not drive through a random suburb at night and randomly pick a car?
Because you’re not guaranteed to find one you’re looking for. If you do a little work up front you get much better odds. I can think of other reasons: You can target more vulnerable people (someone you know isn’t likely to come out and confront you). And, you can observe the usage pattern of the car. For example: you might notice that the victim works nights on Fridays and leaves their car in a more vulnerable locati…
They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because they’re easy to steal. Thieves steal easy to steal things. This is why the AirTag thing doesn’t make sense for tracking a car you’re planning to steal. They’d just steal it on first sight. Otherwise, they’re out like $25+ if that car drives hella far away. Not a wise investment.
Somewhat unrelated… if you drive to the bar then you can’t drink surely?
In my country the rule of thumb, for men, is Two standard drinks in the first hour, and then one standard drink for every hour after that.
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Air tags can be persuaded to emit a sound, but they can be modified to prevent it.
> persuaded to emit a sound please explain your choice of word, an AirTag is not a person, you don't persuade it
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Because you’re not guaranteed to find one you’re looking for. If you do a little work up front you get much better odds. I can think of other reasons: You can target more vulnerable people (someone you know isn’t likely to come out and confront you). And, you can observe the usage pattern of the car. For example: you might notice that the victim works nights on Fridays and leaves their car in a more vulnerable locati…
I don’t think this is gone in 60 seconds, man. People aren’t out here trying to steal $1 mil collector cars on the regular. They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because they’re easy to steal. Thieves steal easy to steal things. This is why the AirTag thing doesn’t make sense for tracking a car you’re planning to steal. They’d just steal it on first sight. Otherwise, they’re out like $25+ if that car drives…
> They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because the
Opportunistic thieves steal easy to steal things. Professional criminals steal high value assets and will have good contacts in organised crime to move those assets on, and usually move them over a border, very quickly. It’s these individuals who are using AirTags to steal cars.
Professionals are probably tracking half a dozen high value vehicles (Mercedes, Audi’s, Porsche’s etc), and will grab a number of them in a single night. Don’t assume these thieves are just junkies looking to pay for their next high. There are more cars in this world than just $1mil collectors cars and cheap civics, plenty of $70k-$150k cars worth putting some effort into.
Reading that, it sounds like a situation to call/drive to/or otherwise get the attention of the police. Attaching a tracking device to your vehicle is a significant indication of malicious intent. It's a potentially life threatening situation and should be treated as such.
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In Australia to activate a sim you need a form of ID, if you were to put a sim card in a GPS tracker you could easily be identified. air tags not so much.
Easy, use a foreign SIM and roam. This is pretty common for IoT devices.
TL;DR: this was possible previously, for fairly determined and advanced users; now it's available to anyone on a whim.