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- privacy@programming.dev
I can’t imagine how this could go poorly. /s
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why is tiktok even still a thing. didn’t it get banned? can it pls die already?
Taco
This post is like a kid who grew up in country clubs and gated neighborhoods just finding out that people illegally sell drugs.
This kind of spy tech has been available and marketed the same way for decades. The only difference is that these are small.
Yeah, but they used to be fairly obvious. Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested. I think it’s good they’re keeping this in the public eye.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker
I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.
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I think it’s less that it’s disproportionately effecting women and moreso the bias that women are more likely to notice and report for social reasons. It’s kinda like with folks getting drugged at bars, one of my buddies got drugged and he just went to sleep in his car no police report no nothing.
When I was a kid my dad put one of these on my mom’s car. I found it. About the size of a wallet
Best way to detect that?
For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?
There is no good solution. Daily life is littered with bluetooth, gps, and other devices, from watches to appliances to car stereos, many of which are not clearly named at all. You can Use a bluetooth scanner app like LightBlue to see what devices are around you as many of the trackers use bluetooth connections as well. Check for unfamiliar devices with strong signals if you park your car someplace away from others in a parking lot or something.
Latest Android versions will alert you if they find an unregistered tag consistently close to you. No app needed. I assume apple has the same at the system software level…
So does apple. But it only works for tags associated with the OS, such as Tile or AirTags. Not some random make.
Are these compatible with ICE vehicles?
Use LoRa instead of sim cards so they can’t tell who bought it though
or Elmo’s plane
God damn! How badly do you want to tickle Elmo???
I want to tickle him with my 3d printed open source fast moving optically tracking high altitude fun time payload delivery spicy tube
Got a link to it on thingiverse?
https://youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems
His logo leaves very little to the imagination
the existence of shit like this is both amazing and terrifying at the same time
I want to print one so bad, so pretty, I want a full size one on my desk. I’m going to write “Goodbye Elmo” on it.
TikTok shop also sells glock switches (to make them automatic pistols), galaxy gas/nitrous tanks and god knows what else.
This is why America is the best nation in the known universe.
You can buy nitrous ANYWHERE, so I wouldn’t blame TikTok for that.
There are ways to make any firearm fully automatic. Some are even legal. Why anyone wants to blow $50 in under 30s is beyond me though. Even military uses burst for a reason, your aim will be off 10 bullets in. Suppression is a different story, but less likely a situation for avg citizens (for now).
I can tell just from looking that they’re just btle not gps. Thankfully both Google and Apple tell you when a tag on their networks is traveling with you. So either these are trash because they’re not on the two largest networks that share data, or they’re useless because they are and if you have a smart phone it’ll warn you.
I’ve seen some pretty small GPS trackers with cell modems, I wouldn’t be surprised if these were that instead depending on the price.
It has way less to do with the size of the device and more to do with the size of the battery. Not much room left at all between the cell modem and GPS antenna required to make that thing work.
Indeed, the models I have seen have a very short battery life, or check in infrequently, or only check in when movement is detected, or use cell signal triangulation to save battery, etc.
Fortunately they hold the charge for realistically short time and therefore are limited in use.
At the end of the article they say many of the listings have terrible reviews because the safety features in FindMy were triggered.
If any of these devices use the networks Google and Apple made, they are not gps.
I saw the same or a very similar ad on Facebook after a reel somebody sent me.
Ok, horrifiying implications of the main story aside, why are you on facebook at all???
I try not to be there anymore, but there are still vestiges . But there are some group stuff i am trying to get to migrate to other places. This was a link somebody sent me.
Now that I think about it that commercial might have been on snap between stories. Snap is also bloating up fast these days.
