Apple will eventually notify the occupants of the vehicle that an unkonwn BLE marker is in their proximity for XX time, but, perhaps they won’t find it or know about it. They are pretty fucking stupid.
Apple will eventually notify the occupants of the vehicle that an unkonwn BLE marker is in their proximity for XX time, but, perhaps they won’t find it or know about it. They are pretty fucking stupid.
Why use a device that is specifically designed not to track other people and has countermeasures built in to warn them…
Because Apple’s got millions of these overpriced widgets sitting in warehouses and this guerrilla marketing campaign might move a few more.
It’s a good way to stay reasonably anonymous. Either you have to have and pay for a SIM and the LTE module or take advantage of the apple tracking system.
You think that Apple doesn’t have a database that links the Airtag to a phone/Apple account?
It’s cryptographically impossible. The purchase history is much more attack surface.
What are you talking about?
If your phone remembers your airtags, and your phone is linked to an account, then they have a record of that. None of that requires anything encrypted. We’re not talking about tracking anything directly, it’s simply pulling the record that your phone registered the airtag previously.
Realistically, if someone is doing this seriously, they’ll get a burner phone and account. So that wouldn’t really matter because the trail will be cold/difficult to trace back