Bluetooth Trackers Exploited for Geolocation in Organised CrimeBluetooth trackers, commonly used for locating personal items and vehicles, have become an unexpected tool in organised crime, according to recent findings reported by Europol in an Early Warning Notification. Typically designed for purposes such as finding lost keys or preventing vehicle theft, Bluetooth trackers are now being leveraged by criminals for geo-locating...
Apple AirTags: Arbitrary data can be uploaded from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. We're releasing an ESP32 firmware that turns the microcontroller into an (upload only) modem, and a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data.
Une récente enquête a montré les immenses capacités des trackers GPS et Bluetooth pour pister et retrouver des objets. Ils mesurent à peine quelques centimètres et sont d’une efficacité redoutable.
Des trackers ont été récemment au cœur d’une enquête sur le leader de la vente de vêtement en ligne Zalando. Trois médias allemands ont glissé des appareils de ce type dans des habits renvoyés après une commande. Le but était de voir dans quels pays voyageaient ensuite les vêtements
Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using AirTags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.
Apple's AirTags, its cheap and cheerful trackers, have proven increasingly dangerous. Unfortunately, there's no easy way of making them safer
We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect Android app.
A researcher has sent one of Apple's AirTags to a mysterious "federal authority" in Germany to locate its true offices — and to help prove that it's really part of an intelligence agency.
Apple's Airtags are an ingenious technology: they fuse every Ios device into a sensor grid that logs the location of each tag, using clever cryptography to prevent anyone but the tag's owner from pulling that information out of the system.
But there are significant problems with Airtags' privacy model. Some of these are unique to Apple, others are shared by all Bluetooth location systems, including Covid exposure-notification apps and Airtag rivals like Tile.
A vast location-tracking network is being built around us so we don’t lose our keys: One couple’s adventures in the consumer tech surveillance state.
