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
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.