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Muscle Car Owner Targeted With Hidden AirTag Placed by Thieves
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Well I can think of a lot worse things, but it's definitely not comforting to know someone tried to target you.
Can't the AirTag be used to track down who the owner / tracker was? Seems like knowing who was tracking that AirTag, from what device and at what location could pin point the lawbreaking delinquents.
That would be a marketing nightmare "We are making an app available to you because our product has been used to stalk and track people"
I'm familiar with the case. I just think it's nuts to assume that this guy is lying. What about all of the other reports of the same thing happening? They must all be liars too. Everything's fake! There's NO WAY that someone is using an Apple product for evil, right?
What's worse is being tracked without the ability for your phone to notify you that you are being tracked.
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Getting tracked by an AirTag is the worst thing ever that happened in this persons life would be an amazing life so far. Pretty sure there’s around 1000 things that could happen way worse
If you are familiar with TikTok, you should be immediately suspicious anytime you start seeing a lot of videos of the same thing...because that's what TikTok does. If it gets attention, everyone wants to do it. Including "finding" an airtag on their own car...
You've been able to buy cheap GPS trackers online for years. And the same can be done with the Tile for years. It's only because anything with Apple in it makes headlines and headlines bring web traffic and revenue, that they're highlighting these cases. Unless they want to admit they're completely ignorant to the fact such tech has been easily accessible for tracking folks for years and they've never picked up on such.
Don't EVs give you a range of miles you have left? So it's no different than a gasoline or diesel vehicle in that regard. And I'm sure the percentage of EVs compared to gasoline or diesel vehicles is very low in comparison, which would explain why less EVs are stolen than other vhicles.
For all it’s good AirTags are now a way to track unintended victims. Find your Apple product was great, but a little unnoticeable device is like right out of a spy novel. We taken this UWB technology a bit too far it seems, almost need to sell portable RF gear for making sure your not being tracked as you travel.
“Today's UWB can accurately pinpoint other devices, tell you if it's in motion, and lead you to it. UWB can, in theory, pinpoint things down to the centimeter. Walls and other obstacles are not much of an issue.”
If someone desires your car, they will try and steal it whatever.
A tracker is not required, they can just follow you home.
Place your own tracker somewhere hidden in your car, and send law enforcement (or the equalizer) on the trail.
A tracker is not required, they can just follow you home.
Place your own tracker somewhere hidden in your car, and send law enforcement (or the equalizer) on the trail.
And something like a Tesla will whoop the "muscle cars" butt without break a sweat.
So now android users need to download an apple app to prevent being tracked? interesting times indeed... If thieves and criminals ever switch to galaxy smart tags, Samsung will have to make an iphone app that does the same thing.
The car example is only the tip of the iceberg, you could hide a AirTag on almost anything. Want to track your spouse, kids, neighbors, employees seems like a lot is possible. Soon you won’t know who following who.
Lol yeah nobody should be able to find their lost things because some minute number of people may or may not abuse the technology.
Also, this has nothing whatsoever to do with UWB. If thieves are actually using AirTags like this—and that's a big "if"—they're only using their BT capabilities.
Except it’s kind of useless because it doesn’t run in the background. You have to somehow suspect you’re being tracked and then run a scan manually, or just remember to regularly scan on your own at some set interval. In the former case, by then it could very well be too late.
Apple Releases 'Tracker Detect' App to Prevent Android Users From Being Tracked by AirTags
Apple today released a new "Tracker Detect" app on the Google Play Store, with the app designed to allow Android users to locate AirTags that...www.macrumors.com
Here you go.
I remember when Toyota Priuses had the stuck accelerator issue a few years ago and I think there were some fake "speeding" incidents / hoaxes over it. haha
Good article
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The Find My network uses Bluetooth, not UWB, for offline finding including AirTags and other Find My devices that have been separated from their owner, which covers the case of AirTags used for illicit tracking of others.Good article
How Do Apple AirTags Work? Ultra-Wideband Explained
Apple's AirTags are a new take on tracking often-lost items. But the technology that powers them is nothing new. Here's what you need to know about ultra-wideband (UWB).www.pcmag.com