I would think that mail to a federal authority would go through an x-ray and mail including suspiciously hidden electronics to get nabbed for forensics.
Sweet Apple didn't bother to create a real time Airtag tracking android app. They have one, but it's manual so it's useless. Thankfully, The Secure Mobile Networking Lab (SEEMOO)of the Computer Science Department of Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany has created an app for it. It's FOSS and available on Google Play and Fdroid.
> If a tracker is detected at least 3 times and the locations have changed (to make sure its not your neighbour) the app sends you a notification.
I'd like for it to report the stationary trackers as well. A ping from my neighbour is one thing, even a ping from a grocery store. But if I saw a repeated ping from an unremarkable street corner, I'm going to be suspicious. Even more so if there are multiple street corners.
I like this though,
> Version 1.0.6 - This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.
> Version 1.1.1 - This version requires Android 5.0 or newer.
I'm not up to date on this stuff (or who you even asked), but I think that situation might be helpful for someone trying to figure out leaving/return patterns for a street/neighborhood
An AirTag doesn't help with that - you're basically looking at a bluetooth beacon. All apple's devices randomly rotate wifi+bluetooth MAC addresses in order to prevent that.
I have yet to understand how the stalker warning works :D
I'm not the OP nor am I sure about the specific answer to your question, but an iPhone will alert you if there's an airtag that's following you around which doesn't belong to you. In other words, if someone is tracking you it will alert you. There is also an app for Android that does the same.
So Apple has a tool against stalking caused by their own products. Reports of abuse are rising though. Technically trackers are illegal in Germany, but the law and legislation acts slowly.
As I understand it's just a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon, at least for the coarse-grain positioning.
I don't know of any portable devices that specifically hunt BLE (I understand Cisco CleanAir technology can monitor and report on BLE but that's for fixed wireless installations) but I would imagine a generic 2.4GHz RF detector would work, assuming there's not too much RF pollution nearby... drive out somewhere isolated and have a scan.
The problem with AirTag and similar is that it's sole purpose is to provide an extremely minor convenience at the expense of allowing anyone at all to expose anything and everything its technology possibly can expose. It puts advanced location tracking in the hands of the consumer-at-large, a technology that no one needs nor realized they wanted until made to want. By and large, it allows people to choose to be dumber, at least that was its purpose before someone discovered they could use it to expose clandestine operations. Bear in mind, spies are people, too, and we only ever hear about terrible spies.
Lilith Wittmann keeps doing cool stuff. She recently rose to national prominence when she exposed massive basic flaws in a campaign app by the former government party and they reacted as incompetently as possible.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 80.2 ms ] threadSo they forwarded to this "secret" agency for detailed examination.
(a thought, likely or not... I do not work for the gov)
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t...
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection
I'd like for it to report the stationary trackers as well. A ping from my neighbour is one thing, even a ping from a grocery store. But if I saw a repeated ping from an unremarkable street corner, I'm going to be suspicious. Even more so if there are multiple street corners.
I like this though,
> Version 1.0.6 - This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.
> Version 1.1.1 - This version requires Android 5.0 or newer.
:thumbsup:
I have yet to understand how the stalker warning works :D
I would buy a device I could plug in to my car's USB that would alert me if an AirTag was near.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
I don't know of any portable devices that specifically hunt BLE (I understand Cisco CleanAir technology can monitor and report on BLE but that's for fixed wireless installations) but I would imagine a generic 2.4GHz RF detector would work, assuming there's not too much RF pollution nearby... drive out somewhere isolated and have a scan.