Comment by anonymousiam 3 days ago
A poor workaround to a problem created by unnecessary restrictions. Stalking is already illegal, so why are the tags crippled in the first place? This "feature" severely limits the usefulness of tags for tracking stolen items. Why not just sell some tags that don't alert everyone to their presence? Police and intelligence agencies have those already, so who are we protecting?
On a related topic, I've opted out of Google's BLE tracking/repeating feature. Apple provides no way to do this. The extra battery drain is significant and measurable, and I did not sign up for this when I purchased my devices.
https://support.google.com/android/thread/284190689/how-to-o...
Turning this off doesn't necessarily stop your phone from participating in the "Find My" network, it just prevents your items from being seen. Your phone will continue to relay BLE/UWB traffic for others, and run down your battery more quickly.
Turning off Bluetooth seems to disable the traffic, but then you can no longer access your local Bluetooth devices.
Breaking and entering is already illegal, why do people sell locks?
Locks keep the dyslexic realtor from showing my house to people interested in the neighboring property.
You’re proving the other persons point - the reason why the a thief doesn’t trivially pick locks isn’t because of the lock, it’s because it’s illegal and there’s a consequence.
Like tags, locks are also deliberately encumbered so that locksmiths and law enforcement can easily defeat them.
Are there people out there who sell locks that aren't purposefully bad?
People like Microsoft?
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28691191/Why-did-...
EDIT: Like in the hotels, you got a key for your room, but the hotel management has a "passpartout" key (for back in the day when we had physical keys). The phrase "<thing> must accept interference, but not cause any". So you/we must be able to receive the 'punch' and not resist.
you ask great questions about power! and yes. though you'll generally find the lock isn't the interesting bit, reinforcing the door frame and door and putting pins at the top/bottom and side is how its done.
otherwise 25 dollars at TSC for a fence post driver will make 95% of residential entryways irrelevant.
That video makes no suggestion that the locks have been deliberately sabotaged. The theory in the video is nothing more than that the company is incompetent at making locks.
> Stalking is already illegal, so why are the tags crippled in the first place?
I assume because it's a network that relies on its reputation among participating nodes to trust it will not be used to track them involuntarily, else they would opt out and collapse the network.