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Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

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Re: Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

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Post by ec109685 »

greenish_shores wrote: post #214

To everyone talking about anti-tracking features. https://github.com/positive-security/find-you "A modified version of OpenHaystack to showcase the possibility of building a stealth AirTag clone that bypasses all of Apple's tracking protection features." Other projects from them, like https://github.com/positive-security/send-my , also seem interesting.

Impressive. Here is the blog post (also linked from their github) that talks about the bypass (the tldr; is that they rotate through public keys in a deterministic way, so Apple’s protections think it’s a new device each time and thus don’t warn about a persistent tracker).

https://positive.security/blog/find-you

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Post by mcny »

hcknwscommenter wrote: post #217
kbos87 wrote: post #158

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I'll offer a counterpoint - I live in a nice building in a bit of a rougher part of a major city. I've learned that the police do show up thankfully, but it takes a very long time unless there's literally a life on the line. (Which, I know, is better than some other major cities.) The couple of times I've interacted with them, it's been painfully obvious to me that they feel like they need to put on a performance for…

Given that 99% of the crimes are committed by repeat offenders, a simple dusting for fingerprints (costs pennies) could likely identify the culprit. But they don't bother. And they act like we've seen too many movies/tv shows. But when an "interesting" crime happens they do in fact dust for fingerprints (cheap!) and do all sorts of swabbing and testing (expensive). The police are lazy in CA especially. And yet they a…

I’m not holding my breath. Things won’t change until there’s a price to pay for corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith

Re: Carpenter's AirTags help uncover 'massive' case of stolen tools in Maryland

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Post by GartzenDeHaes »

throwaway48476 wrote: post #215
mlinhares wrote: post #196

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I shamelessly contribute to the local sheriff's association in the hopes i'll get better treatment if i ever need them, not the best deal ever but i've seen it work elsewhere so :shrug:

If you're in any area that doesn't have permitless carry your contribution may buy you a CPL.

Remember George Zimmerman? People aren't going to do what you say just because you have a gun.

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Post by mandmandam »

WalterBright wrote: post #189
Anechoic wrote: post #160

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https://nleomf.org/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-p...

There was always enforcement of the law. Banditry, murder, etc., had to be dealt with. And sheriffs predated this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_of_Nottingham_(positio... The Code of Hammurabi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi Wouldn't that be useless without a mechanism of enforcement?

The Code of Hammurabi has more in it about protecting property than people, so...

Also, you've conflated 'enforcement of the law' with 'the law protects property more than people'. Why?

For most of history the people with the power to create and enforce laws were also the people with the most property. This isn't some big mystery.

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Post by fragmede »

jonathankoren wrote: post #203
Hnrobert42 wrote: post #181

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It’s sorta hard to trust that your data is unbiased fact when you use the term “copaganda.”

I mean, if you weren't smugly comfortable in your biases, you could always just do a search, say for "FBI crime rate by year", or "police clearance rates by year", or "police funding per year", but I guess not.

that has nothing to do with the fact that using that word causes people to stop listening to you

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Post by throwaway48476 »

GartzenDeHaes wrote: post #223
throwaway48476 wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in any area that doesn't have permitless carry your contribution may buy you a CPL.

Remember George Zimmerman? People aren't going to do what you say just because you have a gun.

Most people are dumb.

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Post by nataliste »

consumer451 wrote: post #206
teitoklien wrote: post #204

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Crime should not be tolerated, criminals thrive on society’s indulgence in being ‘understanding’.

Man, it sounds to me like a few users in this thread wouldn’t mind some good ole Sharia Law. Can’t steal if you don’t have a hand!

Yes.

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

kgwgk wrote: post #211
LeoPanthera wrote: post #79

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And q-tips aren't for cleaning ears, but what you gonna do.

They were for that before the “weren’t”. “The first mass-produced cotton swab was developed in 1923 by Polish-American Jew Leo Gerstenzang after he watched his wife attach wads of cotton to toothpicks to clean their infant's ears.”

I guess in those days nationality/ ethnicity/ religion was an important factor.

Snark: fascism grew in the 1920's, similar in the 2020's.

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Post by robbyiq999 »

There’s obviously a use case referencing something like this article. It would be nice to see some kind of officiating this particular use case of protecting your property, perhaps you could register your tag, pay a fee and deposit / signing a waiver to prevent the stalking use case. It would also be nice to see police go after missing items which have been officially tagged. But I’m also not a huge fan of big brother in general. So maybe forget about it
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