Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online

Post by thebean11 » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

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There are thresholds at which it becomes a felony, so that might be an answer to your question. Otherwise we have to ask it the other way as well -- should the police send out a detective if your 99 cent fidget spinner goes missing?

> There are thresholds at which it becomes a felony, so that might be an answer to your question. Are you saying that police shouldn't bother investigating crimes that aren't felonies? Why even have misdemeanors at all then?

Post by Androider » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

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I haven't experienced the same issues you describe in terms of random beeping or the like. But I do think one of the most curious and irritating missing pieces from AirTags is no sort of tie-in with Family Sharing or some sort of contacts whitelist. I saw one thing saying that was about privacy but that makes zero sense because Apple doesn't do the same thing elsewhere in "Find My" for people or devices. While it's c…

Apple still has some weird atomization issues for a company which is going all-in on family stuff. This is the company which ran out a credit card and payments infrastructure with serious fanfare— and, incredibly, no provisions for married people having joint accounts. None, they added it later when dhh and Steve Wozniak made a stink about it.

Post by tgsovlerkhgsel » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

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> ATX has the security measures of a third-world country That's a pretty dramatic way to describe police not wanting to spend resources to get your $200 headphones back..

Capturing and punishing thieves has a deterring effect on other thieves. Police spending resources to get "your $200 headphones back" saves more than just the $200 headphones, since usually thieves are repeat offenders and it discourages would-be thieves from becoming thieves. If you think about it, if a police officer makes $100/h you could conceivably make the case that catching a single thief could potentially sav…

Post by dylan604 » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

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Sounds like you're thinking about how the first pill costs $7 million to make, but pills 2-inf only cost $0.02. Sure, it doesn't cost anything to wiggle some electrons, but it took effort to build out the infrastructure to do something when those electrons move. It takes effort to maintain it as well. I'm able to see both sides. We all like free things, but free things cost some body some thing some where. If the ven…

Ultimately, I agree with you. My overall point though is that opening the Find My network to other vendors isn't the same as opening the protocol. What Apple does in B2B sales is none of my concern.

Post by Ancapistani » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

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That and parents who only kinda want to track their kids bags ... mostly ... I guess.

Right about now I wish I had pasted one to my son's iPad. Of course, I wish the iPad just had that function built in so it wouldn't need a booger attached to the outside.