Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
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#3Would 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).
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#46G is going to be devices we carry around becoming TX/RX instead of building out mmWave APs every few meters.
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#5This 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 so many side channels, with real world consequences, compromising a billion + iOS devices
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#6Hilarious. 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...
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#7This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services
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#8So if now somebody uses this to upload illegal material somewhere from my IP I am fucked?
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#9That's interesting, so it's really an encrypted APRS replacement over bluetooth then?
Re: Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
#10This 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…
This blog post actually demonstrates the opposite of the point you are trying to make.