A postcard spy

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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

How the fuck does this Bluetooth device transmit its location over miles through a fucking steel aircraft carrier and my headphones disconnect from my phone 3 feet away all the time?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Both Apple and Google run these tracking networks where a nearby phone can relay the tags location back to the network,l.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, there’s a big piece of this puzzle missing.

    If it was an Apple or Google tag it would make sense. They have systems for tracking those but I imagine they must have some kind of limits.

    Anyway, this a $10 random tag from Amazon. Why would any phone report its location? I imagine it has to either be: officially recognized by Apple or Google; spoofing Apple or Google ids; or being picked up by some third-party app.

    No article I’ve see has explained how it was tracked.

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