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"AirTags don't kill people. People kill people!"
Apparently people with AirTags kill people.
I bet she was also wearing clothes. Killers often do that.
Woman accused of tracking boyfriend with Apple AirTag, killing him with car
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A few basic laws would drastically reduce the mortality rate: cap gas tanks to 5 gallons, cap max speed to 25 mph, require monthly psych evals at DMV, and weekly checkins with a local sheriff, and a hotline to report suspicious neighbors that look unstable and should rather take a bus. Ideally we would just ban these machines of destruction: when this country was founded, people used horses, so I see no reason why an…
Cars have uses other than killing or entertainment. Cars currently are regulated. The government can take your driver’s license away.
Weak excuses that put profits of car manufacturers over lives of children. Enough. We're a civilized society and can end this madness.
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#54In F-Droid there is an app against tracking with air tags. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
It is, basically, a simple BLE scanner which remembers tracker IDs and alerts user if some are sticking around for too long. sigh I wish there was a rel "radar" app which could tell the signal source direction! Theoretically, this should be possible since all modern devices have multiple (MIMO) antennas.
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I don't have an Android so can't verify this, but CNET makes it sound like the app scans automatically: > If Tracker Detect notices an AirTag that's been following you for at least 10 minutes, the app will then allow you to play a sound from the AirTag so that you can more easily find the physical tracker. [1] 1: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-tell-if-an-airtag-is...
I use Android and tested the official app. It doesn't warn you. You need to open the app and perform a manual scan. There's an open source app called AirGuard that runs/scans in the background and sends you a notification if they detect "tracking". It drains some battery, but works okay.
But.. shouldn't BLE receiver be completely passive? I mean, it isn't transmitting anything, which should pretty much limit the algorithm to "get list of MACs, compare to another list of MACs, sleep 30s".
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#57Whenever some AirTag news come up, I see the argument that GPS trackers had existed for a while, and they could be purchased readily through AliExpress. The argument implies that additional threat posed by the prevalence of AirTag is non-existent as the threat model had existed before. This argument misses the point that to a non-technically-minded consumer, AirTag made stalking significantly easier not only on a tec…
It's not just accessibility but Apple's enormous network that make the difference. When you use a "standard" tracking device, it is often quite bulky as it has to contain a GSM transceiver and the battery able to power it. Airtags, on the other hand, just use Bluetooth connecting to Find My network. That's an enormous difference. You can't buy such a device from Aliexpress.
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Not if you're on Android and haven't installed the Tracker Detect app from Apple.
Even if you have, it still doesn't notify you. You have to open the app manually whenever you want to check for them.
That is false. I get notifications for my partner's airtags.