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Re:Car stolen with homemade GPS tracker in backseat by varenc on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445384)
> ... put an AirTag in your car

After your car is stolen and the AirTag is separated from your phone, you have ~12 hours before it starts randomly beeping every time it detects motion, alerting the thief to its presence. Or if the thief has an iPhone they'll get a notification that "An AirTag is traveling with you" soon after they steal it.

AirTags are great but sadly I feel like they're not great for this use case. Though definitely better than nothing. (IMHO there's a fundamental conflict between preventing stalking and tracking stolen goods. The result is they're not great for either use case)

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Re:Car stolen with homemade GPS tracker in backseat by nickthegreek on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:11PM (#30445751)
If the airtag is even somewhat well hidden, they would probably just dump the car instead of spending hours looking for it. $30 is a pretty cheap extra deterrent.
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