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I am wondering: - Would a GPS tracker placed at this position be able to catch the GPS signal? If I understand it correctly, an airtag communicate via bluetoot
by kuon 5y ago
I am wondering:
- Would a GPS tracker placed at this position be able to catch the GPS signal? If I understand it correctly, an airtag communicate via bluetooth and would get the location from a phone in range?
- An airtag do not require a SIM card. Are they easily traceable or is it hard to get to the owner?
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- myself248 5y agoA GPS tracker in the wheel well would have no problem getting signal, GPS receivers have gotten spookily sensitive in recent years. And that's a genie that won't go back in the bottle.
- UncleEntity 5y ago> An airtag do not require a SIM card. Are they easily traceable or is it hard to get to the owner? I turned my laptop into a functional airtag one bored day. Not sure how to get the data from apple with a Mac because it requires a bit of hackery due to them not having a public API but it can be done using their email app IIRC. They store the encrypted location data on their servers so without the private key nobody can read it which also means nobody can determine who owns the tracker — I’d imagine they could use access logs or something to figure out who’s been reading the public key which the tracker broadcasts. TFA could have not thrown the airtag away, read the serial number off it and used that as a “clue” methinks. I actually want to get an esp-32 and turn that into a airtag but I’m lazy and would also need to buy a Mac so…though I’m not too lazy to code up a little daemon which will set off the beeper on every airtag in range once I get ahold of one.