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Sounds like you could drive someone a bit crazy with Apple's "AirTag Found Moving With You" feature, since you could rotate serial numbers. Like gluing one of these to their car in someplace not obvious.
This 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.
I've gathered there's a beep if this is going on for 3 days, but...still not comfy with this. And this isn't a particularly fringe opinion, plenty of comments on the article wondering how to opt out:
Sounds like you could drive someone a bit crazy with Apple's "AirTag Found Moving With You" feature, since you could rotate serial numbers. Like gluing one of these to their car in someplace not obvious.
If there’s abuse, you can count on a “report” button showing up. Or at least a “don’t show me this” tied to a specific AirTag
Apple should embrace this fully and create their own decentralized network
This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services
It feels like Apple's ability to fix this is somewhat limited, since they can't change anything about Airtags that have already been produced.
This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services
As far as this method, the IC has thought about this very method for a long time. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t been used in the past.
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Sidewalk's bandwidth and latency is a little better than this, though.
Sidewalk also has the advantage of mostly being home internet connection instead of metered wireless plans
For example, the FindMy network would continue to work even in power outage scenarios like parts of the country experienced in Feb 2021.