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by sva_ 1397 days ago
I've never used an airtag, but from what I've read, it is quite trivial to disable the speaker on a hardware level.
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At this point people have worked out how to just reflash the firmware on the devices. It's just not really possible to make something impossible to abuse, its just up to the legal system now.

It's impossible to make a knife that isn't trivial to abuse but we accept that the utility makes it worth allowing them and use the legal system to go after the abusers.

The problem is that we probably do not agree on the usefulness of the device versus it's abuse potential.

It's not like someone gleefully commented that they are tracking their father with it without clarifiying if the father in question is aware ...

looks trivial on youtube, but has do be done very carefully, because you can easily damage it in the process