6G is going to be devices we carry around becoming TX/RX instead of building out mmWave APs every few meters.
I hope so. Some telecoms deserve to be put out of business and solely exist/continue due to government corruption.
Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
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Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#12Would be cool if Apple released a iPod touch with pager functionality that works thru find my network. Where you can send / receive short messages (even with 15 min delays).
That’s a good idea, I bet Amazon would enable this with sidewalk and mesh networking through the Alexa app.
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#13So if now somebody uses this to upload illegal material somewhere from my IP I am fucked?
You only read the title, didn‘t you
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#14Hilarious. This is exactly what Amazon Sidewalk intends to be. Apple has fallen ass backwards into an IoT killer app, but just don’t know it yet...
Sidewalk's bandwidth and latency is a little better than this, though.
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#15Apple is creating a yawning double standard between its "privacy is a human right" [1] refrain and its own profit interests.
If you're skeptical, the pricing says it all. Apple could've sold AirTags for $99 each with a $1/mo service fee to use the Find My network. That would've boosted their profit margin on the initial sale and created recurring revenue, while restricting network load.
As it stands, AirTags are $25 each and free to operate, which means that Apple wants them to be ubiquitous — buy 10 or 20 and put them everywhere.
Apple has gotten a lot of mileage on their idea that "the customer is not the product" but this is a turn in the wrong direction. Despite months of claims that AirTags are impregnable, unhackable, etc. the news is just going to get worse.
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#16This is starting to remind me of when Intelligent Tracker Prevention(tm) was released and instead was a super cookie leaking history. http://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/curious-case-of-privacy-vulner... I'd be much more comfortable with Apple being Privacy, Inc. if they kept their commitment to it, too often it looks like engineers got overrode by marketing. It's v unlikely a privacy engineer signed off on something, with…
Um - I think you are totally missing the point - Apple is doing probably the only fully encrypted system - vs tile and friends where everything lives in a database. This is not compromising billions of iOS devices, which frankly remain FAR FAR more secure than 80% of the competitor handsets which in many cases seem to ship with backdoor built in by their mfgs.
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#17So if now somebody uses this to upload illegal material somewhere from my IP I am fucked?
The elephant in the room of all p2p networks.
Even if they eventually find you innocent, you would have gone through all the headache of the court system anyway.
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#18does apple provide a way to opt out of the FindMy network?
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#19So if now somebody uses this to upload illegal material somewhere from my IP I am fucked?
yes, at a staggering rate of 3 bytes a second
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#20does apple provide a way to opt out of the FindMy network?
Yep