Airtag被汽車竊賊用作偷車標的物 - iOS

原網址：
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/apple-airtags-being-used-by
-thieves-to-track-high-end-cars-to-steal/

短網址：
https://tinyurl.com/y4dscv5t

【情報內容】
When Apple debuted its new AirTag tracker earlier this year, part of our
review focused on the privacy implications of the device. We called the
device "a rare privacy misstep from Apple." This week, Canadian police
announced that car thieves have been using AirTags to track vehicles they
want to steal.

York Regional Police (which serves an area north of Toronto) revealed that it
has investigated five incidents in the past three months in which thieves
have hidden AirTags on vehicles parked in public. Later, the thieves tracked
down their targets to steal the cars at their leisure.

Other Bluetooth-based trackers have been available for some time now, but the
ubiquity of Apple devices (which communicate with AirTags via Apple's Find My
app) means it's generally faster and more accurate to track something
remotely via an AirTag than a rival device like a Tile. And while they
undoubtedly make it easier for users to recover lost stuff, the tags are
being exploited by criminals.

Apple did build some anti-stalking functions into AirTags—if your Apple
device detects that you're being followed by an unfamiliar device, it will
alert you, as long as you're running iOS 14.5 or newer.

摘要翻譯：
加拿大警方日前宣佈說
過去三個月已經發現至少五起汽車竊案
是竊賊利用Airtag去定位自己之後打算偷的高級車
因此警方警告這類搜尋失物用的定位裝置已經被利用於犯罪上了

另外蘋果也說在iOS14.5之後的版本
已經增加了若被不明裝置跟蹤就會發出警告的功能

心得：
其實不是很意外啦
倒是那個防跟蹤機制我不是很懂
意思是說「如果手機偵測到附近有不明AirTag一直在身邊就會警告」嗎？

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