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Now, who could have forseen such sinister consequences?! /s (Actually, anyone, even I did [0] ) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122057 https://new

Now, who could have forseen such sinister consequences?! /s (Actually, anyone, even I did [0] ) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122057

gjsman-1000 4y ago
Existed forever. Battery-powered GPS trackers, Tile trackers, Private Investigators, buying cell-phone location data, there are plenty of options, and none of those options even bother trying to notify the person being tracked. Sure, AirTag makes it easier... if you trust that nobody with an iPhone comes near it who might be alerted, and the person is an idiot who didn't have plenty of tracking options already available that are superior. Did I mention hammers have been used to smash brains in? And we allow our teenagers to use them!
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  None of the options you listed offers same autonomous life, cheap price, invasiveness, ubiquitous detection network, and, on top of that, plausible deniability in case you are caught. "Oh that's where my keys ended up! Thanks you, officer!" Also, I admire your audacity in denying reality, dismissing the dangers of technology as negligible right under that article that reports on its malicious use.
  - gjsman-1000 4y ago
    I don't disagree with that it can be dangerous, I disagree on the level of danger. Someone died - yes. Also, 1,000 children are injured in California alone from pencils yearly. You are more likely yourself to die from a pencil than a shark. We're not banning pencils despite children having died from them. I need not go into cars, or how knitting yarn is a strangulation tool, or hammers a murder weapon. Not to mention the incredibly deadly thing called stairs (12,000 deaths yearly, over 1 million ER injuries yearly). We as a society have decided hammers, pencils, stairs, and so forth are safe enough, even for children. Same for AirTags.

Now, who could have forseen such sinister consequences?! /s (Actually, anyone, even I did [0] ) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122057

gjsman-1000 4y ago

Existed forever. Battery-powered GPS trackers, Tile trackers, Private Investigators, buying cell-phone location data, there are plenty of options, and none of those options even bother trying to notify the person being tracked. Sure, AirTag makes it easier... if you trust that nobody with an iPhone comes near it who might be alerted, and the person is an idiot who didn't have plenty of tracking options already available that are superior. Did I mention hammers have been used to smash brains in? And we allow our teenagers to use them!

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
None of the options you listed offers same autonomous life, cheap price, invasiveness, ubiquitous detection network, and, on top of that, plausible deniability in case you are caught. "Oh that's where my keys ended up! Thanks you, officer!" Also, I admire your audacity in denying reality, dismissing the dangers of technology as negligible right under that article that reports on its malicious use.
- gjsman-1000 4y ago
  I don't disagree with that it can be dangerous, I disagree on the level of danger. Someone died - yes. Also, 1,000 children are injured in California alone from pencils yearly. You are more likely yourself to die from a pencil than a shark. We're not banning pencils despite children having died from them. I need not go into cars, or how knitting yarn is a strangulation tool, or hammers a murder weapon. Not to mention the incredibly deadly thing called stairs (12,000 deaths yearly, over 1 million ER injuries yearly). We as a society have decided hammers, pencils, stairs, and so forth are safe enough, even for children. Same for AirTags.