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This is because Apple is silently building a survailance network for lost devices, the UWB chip in the iPhone 11 is also in the Airpods Pro and will be on all f
by chews 7y ago
This is because Apple is silently building a survailance network for lost devices, the UWB chip in the iPhone 11 is also in the Airpods Pro and will be on all future Apple things. Say I leave my Airpods pro in the conference room of an office I was at earlier for a job interview... with Apple's UWB magic, any iPhone 11 can be used to find my airpods, not just mine... This is for locational discovery of all future apple devices, this mesh network allows someone to use your device as the exit to apples location servers.
- NoPicklez 7y agoHow do we not know that they would only allow discovery of devices linked to your Apple account?
- supernova87a 7y agoThe description of the system so far has detailed that only you and one of your other devices can discover where your lost device is, and no one else.
- olliej 7y agoIf you read the white paper it makes it clear that location information isn't limited by policy (permissions, etc), but rather by actual cryptographic techniques that need your devices to access. It is designed so that you can always have find my X working without simultaneously requiring your (unencrypted) location being sent to apple.
- callalex 7y agoThe only way we will know that those claims are remotely true is if they release spice code. Until then, how can we know?
- olliej 7y agoI mean if you're unwilling to accept a published document from them, then you can't accept any claims by any company. Including Google + Android. At least, unlike android, iOS indicated that the location system was being used.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoAndroid shows this. Not sure why Android is relevant in this thread, seems like a pivot