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How sensitive is the phone's "I'm being tracked" algorithm? It doesn't go by tag owner but by Bluetooth Mac. If I I buy 4 tags, register them all to me, overwr
by zamnos 3y ago
How sensitive is the phone's "I'm being tracked" algorithm? It doesn't go by tag owner but by Bluetooth Mac.
If I I buy 4 tags, register them all to me, overwrite the firmware on one so it rotates between 4 IDs, once every 15 minutes, then the phone won't see the tag as following it. Hell, you could glue 4 of them to transistors, a power supply, and a circuit to turn them on and off in rotation without modding the firmware.
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoWhy wouldn't it see 4 tags as following it, then?
- zamnos 3y agoIt might! I don't know what's in Apple's closed source blob that implements the "am I being stalked" behavior and what parameters actually trigger it. Maybe you need to rotate between 60 tags, or 600.
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoIn which case Apple could notice that 600 tags from the same guy tend to float around you...
- theshrike79 3y agoOr you could just spend a few bucks more and get a GPS tracker that's 100% undetectable.