Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 17:14:46 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <59dc7029-32ce-5ecd-95bc-176055dc97cf@invalid.nospam> <86jzj8o4o6.fsf@example.com> <8244f8c9-e597-d8c9-704b-1ceb33ec03e4@invalid.nospam> <465672a2-119b-8632-7f6a-0d8033cb85d3@invalid.nospam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 8ZdNEN26n0qK8+LTiUEhFwrWgIpvovZW+JSjCubqAMYOtatHhG Cancel-Lock: sha1:5NRMjplO8zDvAZfUivBsVc00bgc= sha256:PxTWUAfJujlqSDZ2R7aBYhSyIRMw+27NeKAWCMrjTMQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:187821 comp.mobile.android:141800 alt.comp.os.windows-10:176879 Chris wrote: > The airtag is battery powered and whenever > an apple device (and now google) passes by it logs what it has seen and > where. The mobile device doesn't even need to have a live data connection > as it'll upload its sightings the next time it is online. I did think the combined "fleet" of iphones and android phones were now going to report positions of all tracking devices. But it seems that they will operate as two isolated sets of devices, iphones only reporting "findmy" devices and android phones only reporting "findmydevice" devices. The only functionality they will share is warning of devices that are travelling with you, yet separated from their owner (i.e. being used as stalking devices).