Re:How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
by ec109685 on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:25AM
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Apple’s servers can’t see where the tag is. The location data is encrypted so only the owner of the tag can read it on their phone.
Re:How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
by rsync on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:30PM
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What were they called in deepness in the sky ?
The localizers ?
Re:How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
by TMWNN on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:49PM
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Yes.
For others' benefit, Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human interstellar civilization thousands of years in the future, in which superluminal travel is impossible (for the humans), so travelers use hibernation to pass the decades while their ships travel between star systems. Merchants often revisit systems after a century or two, so see great changes in each visit.
The merchants repeatedly find that once smart dust (tiny swarms of nanomachines) are developed, governments inevitably use them for ubiquitous surveillance, which inevitably causes societal collapse. <https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255>
So basically iPhones are now pretty much the biggest surveillance network in the world, constantly reporting on location of tags (and other iPhones) to Apple servers.