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by ChrisMarshallNY 923 days ago
I suspect there's more where that came from. The only reason we learned of this, is because the cat was let out of the bag, and Apple was able to talk about it (gag order).

People might want to think about how AirTags and Find My Phone work...

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> People might want to think about how AirTags and Find My Phone work...

rotating BTLE identifiers controlled by a pseudorandom sequence derived from a key, and tunneled over end to end encryption?

With locations over time tied to personal identifiers stored in a database with no public audit controls
Isn’t that already what every standardly configured smartphone does?