Limitations here or there, it is very easy to follow others with the tool.
Recently, thanks to both Apple and Samsung, their tracking tools have been launched, which can link to missing items and hopefully include items such as key chains or wallets. Essentially very helpful, but a number of advocacy organizations have raised product concerns, as they can easily allow bullies to accurately track their victims and, where appropriate, locate them.
Due to the problems, both Apple and Samsung have tried to provide protection from harassment in their devices, to alert victims to follow them with a notification or beep on the mobile phone. The Washington Post Reporters with the $ 20 Apple AirTag ran a candy test and found the steps were insufficient, especially if the victim lived in a home with an abusive person, such as the abuser.
During the test, a journalist put AirTag in his colleague’s bag, with his agreement, of course. First of all, it turned out that the product worked very well: the person doing the tracking was able to tell with a delay of a few minutes that exactly where his victim was riding the bike, he had no problem determining his exact place of residence.
As expected, the AirTag space transmission with it caused an alarm to sound on the victim’s phone, but for victims who use Android devices, this won’t happen: They can only expect the harassing AirTag to start emitting an alarm after three full days. However, it has now been revealed that with some ingenuity, there is no problem with anchoring the whistle in the tool, plus after all this time the harasser will already know where his victim lives and where his victim usually goes, so unveiling the gadget does not necessarily divide or multiply. .
Finally, the weird thing about the notification on iPhones is that alarm display can be turned off on devices completely, and it’s not associated with entering a PIN or password, or biometric authentication. In many cases, violators can gain access to the devices of those abusing them, and the strange security flaw makes it easy for them to turn off the alarm unnoticed.
Additionally, the countdown to beep is reset when the AirTag is within range of the perpetrator’s mobile phone, so it doesn’t necessarily have to worry the abusive spouse, or even the bully who works in the same place as the victim. About zeroing.
Journalists suggest that their tracker manufacturers are trying to start something with the problems. At a minimum, develop a standard, platform-independent solution so that security alerts appear regardless of the mobile phone and tracker used.
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