Comment by anonymousiam
11 hours ago
A poor workaround to a problem created by unnecessary restrictions. Stalking is already illegal, so why are the tags crippled in the first place? This "feature" severely limits the usefulness of tags for tracking stolen items. Why not just sell some tags that don't alert everyone to their presence? Police and intelligence agencies have those already, so who are we protecting?
> Stalking is already illegal, so why are the tags crippled in the first place?
I assume because it's a network that relies on its reputation among participating nodes to trust it will not be used to track them involuntarily, else they would opt out and collapse the network.
On a related topic, I've opted out of Google's BLE tracking/repeating feature. Apple provides no way to do this. The extra battery drain is significant and measurable, and I did not sign up for this when I purchased my devices.
https://support.google.com/android/thread/284190689/how-to-o...
You can disable it on iPhone by:
Go to: Settings → your name → Find My → Find My iPhone
Toggle “Find My network” → OFF
It should be noted that this will also disable your ability to find your own airtags.
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Breaking and entering is already illegal, why do people sell locks?
Locks keep the dyslexic realtor from showing my house to people interested in the neighboring property.
yeah, but they do nothing to stop a locksmith in a fugue state from rekeying all the bolts to match the neighboring property and vice-versa, and then the realtor can walk right in, and you're locked out!
so it's better to just leave the door open.
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Like tags, locks are also deliberately encumbered so that locksmiths and law enforcement can easily defeat them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jzHw3lXCQ
Are there people out there who sell locks that aren't purposefully bad?
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That video makes no suggestion that the locks have been deliberately sabotaged. The theory in the video is nothing more than that the company is incompetent at making locks.