How Apple’s New Find My Service Locates Missing Hardware That’s Offline -

[Drop_Bear]

I have an uneasy feeling about this.

any Internet-connected Apple device running iOS 13 or macOS 10.15 Catalina can identify broadcasts from the Bluetooth adapter in other Internet-offline Apple devices nearby and pass that information back to Apple. This reporting works even when the missing Mac, iPhone, or iPad is on standby or sleeping,

As one contact commented:

[So the announcement, the alpha, the beta, and v.1.0 will be trustworthy.

[And, once the PR gains have been made, and the user-base has accepted the feature, and the chat has occurred with the spook agencies, some modifications will be made to the design, right?]

Given Australia’s increasingly authoritarian environment, I see trouble ahead.

How Apple’s New Find My Service Locates Missing Hardware That’s Offline -...

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It’s the World Wide Apple!

This is the same company that decided it should anonymise your device to hide your location? (Unfortunately that idea apparently didn’t work.)