Comment on Thieves caught stealing political yard signs
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks agoDoes it only have to be phones or can it triangulate from wifi, like a ton of other tracking things do?
Comment on Thieves caught stealing political yard signs
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks agoDoes it only have to be phones or can it triangulate from wifi, like a ton of other tracking things do?
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
All the tracker does (to my knowledge) is sending out a Bluetooth signal every Bluetooth-capable device that has
been backdooredthe appropriate software running and Bluetooth enabled, which is at least all IPhones, as well as many Android smartphones, will pick up those Bluetooth signals, calculate the rough distance based on the delay, and then send the rough location to the Apple servers. The Airtag itself does not calculate anything.IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My understanding is that most modern iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops will respond to Air Tags and forward their pings to Apple.