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Can you be more specific with where you think the risk is? As far as I can tell, in this scenario, the journalist has powered off their phone, ignored the mess
by majormajor 5y ago
Can you be more specific with where you think the risk is?
As far as I can tell, in this scenario, the journalist has powered off their phone, ignored the message about "findable when power off," and then is somehow tracked through the BT beacon and Find My network.
Were their phone to be on, all the same tracking would work.
Were they to read the message and go change the settings, this tracking would presumably not work.
That assumes you trust that the "always on processor" only does what it says it does, of course. But in that case, any proprietary device is just as bad as any other. (Many supposedly less-proprietary devices could be sneakily subverted, too, no?)
- gremIin 5y agoYou asked what the real risk is then described several risks.
- majormajor 5y agoHow many risks here are new in iOS 15 or exclusive to Apple products? Specifically, I believe the real risk seems to be that you have very few ways to know if your device is doing anything when it's on or off unless the manufacturer tells you. If you don't believe that everyone, including your government is corrupt, the only solution is through government regulation. Clearly the private companies are otherwise going to do what they will.
- krrrh 5y agoIn some cases. In other cases the government regulation is what puts people at risk in ways that the companies have no interest in doing.