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you know people don't only go home. they have affairs, they may be undercover agents, or they may be doing something they're not proud of (legal or not).
by avh02 5y ago
you know people don't only go home. they have affairs, they may be undercover agents, or they may be doing something they're not proud of (legal or not).
- jeromegv 5y agoAll those things are possible with tons of device on the market, and has been possible for years. I don't really know what your point is. Yes, this can be used in a bad way. Just like the car you purchase can be used in a bad way, to kill pedestrians. But what is the point of those what-if scenarios?
- avh02 5y agoYou can justify anything with that logic: Guns are just an improvement on skull bashing, and there's rocks readily available everywhere! The low cost, simplicity, network ubiquity, and availability of these devices is different. Nobody what-if's cell phones (after all they can be used to coordinate terrible actions) because they provide a useful service to most people, as do cars (which require license and registration btw). Misuse is mostly obvious and punishable by law. Employing a massive, worldwide, distributed network which can run trackers just for lost trinkets, with the nefarious uses so easily in reach (and defenses not available to anybody not on your fancy ecosystem) is a scary thing. As for other products that exist, I have no defense except that their purchase is either obvious, their presence notable "oops, somebody dropoed an airtag here" (relatively innocuous) vs "oops, somebody dropped a gps tracker here". I don't know how e.g: tile deals with this, but at the very least it doesn't get to piggy back on my resources by default to trace me home.