[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

It seems that people already in that situation are already very vulnerable and AirTags don’t really add that much new vulnerability.

If someone has physical access to you and your devices, it will be very hard for you you be sure they are not tracking you. With a lot of Android devices, you can root them and get access to a ton of location data.

Many apps also store your location data. You can also side load apps that would do this even more so.

[hundchenkatze]

Buying an AirTag is more accessible to vastly more people than rooting phones and side-loading apps.

[capableweb]

> It seems that people already in that situation are already very vulnerable and AirTags don’t really add that much new vulnerability.

It doesn't add more "functionality" in the "tracking" use case, but it does make it more widely available to everyone and possibly easier to use than custom tracking solutions built with ESP32 chips.

I'm not saying to block the sale of AirTags, but they should really think through and make it impossible for misuse, otherwise reconsider if the value provided by this product is actually higher than the potential for misuse.

[baq]

network effects have nonlinear impact in the size of the network. there are other products which do the same thing. none of them has that scale.