[smoldesu]

> You have absolutely no idea what. It’s a loosely defined system that Amazon controls remotely at their will.

s/Amazon/Apple and you've got yourself the Airtag protocol. Obviously Airtags use less bandwidth, but both are proprietary and about equally as evil in my eyes.

[wyager]

We know exactly what goes in an airtag message. It’s very limited. https://positive.security/blog/send-my

[smoldesu]

The article you just linked is about an exploit that allows you to propagate arbitrary data through the Airtag network, which is the exact opposite of knowing what goes into an Airtag message.

[wyager]

Actually read the article. It’s so bandwidth-limited as to be useless

[jiofih]

You are entitled to your feelings of course, but the design of the two systems could not be more different.