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How so? You can get GPS trackers for less than an airtag
by Goz3rr 5y ago
How so? You can get GPS trackers for less than an airtag
- squarefoot 5y agoMost GPS trackers however need a SIM card, which would be traceable.
- oneplane 5y agoTo what? A point of sale? AirTags can be tracked to where they were sold as well in the same way. Some countries might have some sort of construction where you need to provide some form of identification but that only applies to the most obvious avenues to buy a SIM-card for the public. It's not like the shady MFA-farms with the 100-modem appliances are fed by a person actually buying 100 SIM-cards without getting caught or something like that... (and then there is false identification which often is a crime by itself but misbehaving persons might not really care about that) AirTags in this case are just blamed because they are actually detectable by normal users, and that makes it an 'impression' problem, not a new problem.
- diebeforei485 5y agoNo - you buy a burner phone at any convenience store, using cash, pop the sim card out of the phone, and put it into the GPS tracker.
- squarefoot 5y agoGood to know. We don't have burner phones over here, and can't verify, however I thought their SIM cards were locked so that they couldn't be used on other devices.
- Goz3rr 5y agoWhere I live (NL) you don't even need to buy a whole phone, anonymous prepaid sim cards don't require any ID to purchase.
- squarefoot 5y agoThe burner phone would be a better option IMO. Phones can be traced with their IMEI so if before or after using it with an anonymous SIM it's/was used with a personal SIM, it will be easy to associate the phone owner's name with the anonymous SIM.