Airtags. National post not just Richmond interest
This thread is generally regarded as the first and the most widely ready by SD / Mongers.
As such I wanted to post the danger of the new Apple Airtags to the SD / SB lifestyle.
These little things are a bad actor SD / monger / stalker's wet dream. They are so small and can be slipped into the bottom of a SB's bag or even car and never found. The the bad actor can track his SB. Not sure how Apple would react to relinquishing the owner of an AirTag without a Court Subpoena.
IN REVERSE. Those of us SD's that are worried about revealing our true identities can easily be "AirTagged" by the SB and tracked back to our homes and places of work. It is SO EASY.
So in the case of the SD Airtagging the SB -- it will only take one real public and tragic case to explode in our faces. National Press and end of the seeking site.
In the case of an SB Airtagging her SD -- he is so fucked!!
No idea how we can defend ourselves against these things -- does anybody know of a BluTooth scanner that can scan bags / room for active devices?
SATraveler.
Airtags: Three days is a long time.
[QUOTE=GeechieDan;5458852]According to Apples website, IPhones will alert you if someone else's Air Tag finds its way into your belongings. Of course it seems as if this only works if you have an iPhone. I'm not sure if Android phones will detect it.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SaTraveler;5458860]Correct -- if you own Android you are out of luck with a warning.
They are also easy to drop in the back of a car. Not so close I suspect as to trigger the warning??[/QUOTE]I posted this somewhere else a while back, but appears relevant here.
You may not be in your car or near your backpack when it decides to chirp for 15 seconds. Plus Android users get no alert on the phone. Not the end of the world, just saying it's gotten much easier.
[URL=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/05/apple-airtags-stalking/]Apple AirTags only partly stop stalking - The Washington Post[/URL]
From the article:
[I]I got multiple alerts: from the hidden AirTag and on my iPhone. But it wasnt hard to find ways an abusive partner could circumvent Apples systems. To name one: The audible alarm only rang after three days and then it turned out to be just 15 seconds of light chirping. And another: While an iPhone alerted me that an unknown AirTag was moving with me, similar warnings arent available for the roughly half of Americans who use Android phones.[/I]