[notjesse]

Many will misinterpret it. We have seen how much the public can fundamentally misunderstand technical information over the past year.

People will just see that: 1. You can never disconnect your iPhone from the grid and stop it from being tracked. Even if you turn it off. 2. Governments, companies, and other (from the conspiracy theorist's standpoint) will be able find you whenever they want.

I am sure there are some legitimate security concerns here, but Apple seems to have taken reasonable steps to provide a pretty awesome feature which has solved a lot of risky edge cases.

[xg15]

> 1. You can never disconnect your iPhone from the grid and stop it from being tracked. Even if you turn it off. 2. Governments, companies, and other (from the conspiracy theorist's standpoint) will be able find you whenever they want.

Ok, I'll bite and play the conspiracy theorist. What reasonable steps prevent some three letter agency (or Apple itself for commercial reasons) from abusing the Find My network to do exactly that?

[user-the-name]

Many Hacker News people, who are prone to conspiratorial thinking will.

Regular people, not so much.