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Apple AirTag jailbroken already – hacked in rickroll attack
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Apple AirTags, Now Jailbroken, Could Become Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare | ExtremeTech
The new Apple AirTag is not the first smart tracker, but it's so good at what it does that it ...
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Wonder how Apple will address this.
Why would they even care?Apple AirTags, Now Jailbroken, Could Become Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare | ExtremeTech
The new Apple AirTag is not the first smart tracker, but it's so good at what it does that it ...
Wonder how Apple will address this.
There's $20 gps trackers that are way smaller than an airtag that are specifically made to track people.
It's a hardware hack, who would even go through all this effort when there's way better trackers available to purchase for tracking-purposes.
"One AT amongst millions". Nice camo.
This is also about more than tracking.
Didn't realize you could jailbreak these.
Then there is the way they interact with Apple products, rouge URL's, and other items.
It’s not an easy process, a car was famously traded for a hardware jailbroken iphone when a method like this was the only way. Judging from the article it seems like the vulnerable chip Apple selected has been available for awhile, and this hardware flaw has been identified for some time which is why the developer chose to use the method to try the jailbreak. Apple probably also knew about the flaw and simply didn’t view it as a big deal.
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