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Let’s see how hard it is to neuter the sound generation within the AirTag itself. If it’s silent itself, an Android or no-device trackee is vulnerable. There i
by quantified 5y ago
Let’s see how hard it is to neuter the sound generation within the AirTag itself. If it’s silent itself, an Android or no-device trackee is vulnerable.
There is not much tech that lacks unpreventable malicious use. Needs to be expected for pretty much anything.
- zingplex 5y agoWould it be possible to design the device to detect if the speaker has been tampered with? Perhaps having some sort of microphone on board to detect whether the speaker is functional would work.
- nomel 5y agoThis could be put into the speaker driver, to do something like an impedance measurement, to verify that something that looks like a speaker coil is still present. If you wanted to make something hard to defeat, you could measure the capacitance between the coil and case, as a deflection measumerent, to verify that coil was actually moving in a way that it should be. Both would probably add a relatively large amount of power consumption, completely change the design, and add a bunch of cost, where nobody would be interested anymore.
- Syonyk 5y agoTrivial. https://mashtips.com/remove-airtag-speaker/ https://mashtips.com/remove-airtag-speaker/ Or just buy a pre-modded one. https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phone-accessories/138509/silent-airtags-with-speakers-removed-pop-up-on-etsy-ebay https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phone-accessories/138509/silent-...
- Spivak 5y agoYou don't have to actually do that. The devices aren't directly authorized by Apple. So long as you broadcast the right beacons over BT you can make any device findable by the Find My network.