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Thieves caught stealing political yard signs (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Quacksalber 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

All the tracker does (to my knowledge) is sending out a Bluetooth signal every Bluetooth-capable device that has ~~been backdoored~~ the appropriate software running and Bluetooth enabled, which is at least all IPhones, as well as many Android smartphones, will pick up. Those devices will calculate the rough distance based on the delay, and then send the rough location to the Apple servers. The Airtag itself does not calculate anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My understanding is that most modern iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops will respond to Air Tags and forward their pings to Apple.