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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by jdminhbg on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:56PM (#30200809)
You'll note that there's never ever a culprit in a single one of these stories, and nobody ever successfully carries out the crime by actually showing up to an apartment or cornering someone in their car. It's classic urban legend stuff.

Would you expect people to sometimes get away with committing a crime like stalking? Yes. Would you expect every single person who commits stalking in this way to always, without exception, get away with it? Of course not. The parsimonious explanation is that the vast majority of these stories are simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.

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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by Andrew_nenakhov on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:25PM (#30201073)
> simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.

The uniquity of technology gives real stalkers this nice excuse. How convenient!

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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by jdminhbg on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:34PM (#30202527)
Very convenient. So much so that there must be one story of someone actually being attacked rather than just finding an AirTag, right?
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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:05AM (#30204474)
So you are claiming that nobody of the attacked females were stalked and found using AirTags?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17272409/how-stay-safe-apple-a...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/20/apple-air...

How many stalking victims never found out they are tracked because they used Android phones? How many perpetrators just covertly removed the AirTag after the attack? This device allows very clandestine surveillance by anyone.

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Re:Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up fo... by jdminhbg on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:36PM (#30209910)
Did you read those articles? Neither of them actually shows someone showing up in a location as a result of using AirTags to track someone. They show someone finding an AirTag that wasn't theirs.

I'm willing to grant that the number of people caught would be lower than the number of people who were actually successful -- we don't catch every murderer, for example. But isn't there one, just one, example of someone actually showing up? Nobody ever gets caught? Like I said, this is classic urban legend material.

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