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Comment by coolspot

2 years ago

Not law enforcement, but random punks. Law enforcement can get your airtag private keys from your iCloud backup.

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withinboredom  2 years ago

That’s not how an AirTag works. Anyone can request any AirTag by simply knowing the public key (which is broadcast via BLE). Then you just need the private key which doesn’t need to be backed up by disabling keychain backups.

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