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> An AirTag is a lost item tracker. What I was mentioning is a stolen item tracker. Very different propositions. There's two different types of "stolen items".

• close04 3y ago
  No I get that. For cars it’s actually a lot harder because they have a lot of valuable parts that can’t be meaningfully secured. And joy rides are the worst of all because the perpetrators aren’t around by the time you locate your car of bike. Locating it is actually the least of the worries, it’s usually crashed somewhere or thrown in the river. But a phone, e-bike, or expensive camera, etc. are better served by integrated “Find My”. If it gets to Shenzen it’s lost anyway but otherwise removing the activation locks or location mechanism in practice will destroy the core of the device. Locking an AirTag behind a mechanical lock cannot achieve the same. It takes a minute to pick or drill the lock and ditch the AirTag in an envelope to Shenzen. Think of LPL and what lock can prevent that. The lock is still the weakest link and if it can’t protect the bike directly, adding layers of complication directly relying on the same weak link seems pointless.