> 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.

> 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.