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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by 28uwedj on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:20PM (#29619600)
In Australia to activate a sim you need a form of ID, if you were to put a sim card in a GPS tracker you could easily be identified. air tags not so much.
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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by hrrsn on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:52PM (#29621388)
Easy, use a foreign SIM and roam. This is pretty common for IoT devices.
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Re:Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar by Piskvorrr on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:39AM (#29623256)
Still, even if not linked through purchase, the device will communicate back to a number controlled by you, fairly directly. A lot of obvious and hard-to-mask effort to emulate something that's provided as a COTS package with far harder tracking back to you.

TL;DR: this was possible previously, for fairly determined and advanced users; now it's available to anyone on a whim.

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