Re:How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift
by avnigo on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:54AM
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The context of the quote is found here [0]:
> In addition to making sure that location information and other data are fully encrypted, participants’ identities remain private from each other and from Apple.
I don't know that it matters whether or not there's any authentication information. If you could get your Apple device to misreport its location (would need jailbreaking for iOS probably)[1], maybe you could fool the Find My network into reporting the AirTag is elsewhere.
[1]: This would likely need to be quite involved, considering location may be determined from a combination of IP, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, etc., although I'd be surprised if there aren't already tools available to do that, especially on macOS.
> In addition to making sure that location information and other data are fully encrypted, participants’ identities remain private from each other and from Apple.
I don't know that it matters whether or not there's any authentication information. If you could get your Apple device to misreport its location (would need jailbreaking for iOS probably)[1], maybe you could fool the Find My network into reporting the AirTag is elsewhere.
[0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/find-my-security-se...
[1]: This would likely need to be quite involved, considering location may be determined from a combination of IP, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, etc., although I'd be surprised if there aren't already tools available to do that, especially on macOS.