I give it 2 weeks before we start hearing news stories about people using as a stalking tool. A jealous partner could slip it into their partner's purse to track their movements for example.
As it's bluetooth LE, it would be useless for this purpose. About all it could do is tell you when the tag was *not* somewhere, i.e. out of range as opposed to where it was. So I suppose you could use it to test your partners car was parked in the garage or not and make inferences but not much else.
Anyway if you wanted a GPS tracker then they sell them on Aliexpress for $5-10. As it happens they also sell Bluetooth LE proximity tags almost identical in purpose to these Airtags for a buck. So Apple saw the
It's more than that. It will report its position using any internet connected Apple Device, not just your own. The security around this is actually pretty clever, in so much that the relaying device has no way of knowing who owns a device it's reporting, but never the less, it's not just when it's within Bluetooth range of your own phone.
In other words, phone software is doing the heavy lifting (scrap some bluetooth devices, send data to Apple), not the hardware itself which is so cheap you can get similar tags for a dollar.
I give it 2 weeks... (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong...
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Anyway if you wanted a GPS tracker then they sell them on Aliexpress for $5-10. As it happens they also sell Bluetooth LE proximity tags almost identical in purpose to these Airtags for a buck. So Apple saw the
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It's more than that. It will report its position using any internet connected Apple Device, not just your own. The security around this is actually pretty clever, in so much that the relaying device has no way of knowing who owns a device it's reporting, but never the less, it's not just when it's within Bluetooth range of your own phone.
Re:I give it 2 weeks... (Score:2)