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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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673 points dmd | 1 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmull ◴[19 Dec 24 19:42 UTC] No.42465013[source]▶
I know this is useful (for something), but I'm stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story...

Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained?

How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway?

If the thief did keep the AirTag and you tracked them down, then what? A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. You could try to get the police to do it, but that's going to take more time, during which the thief is even more likely to ditch the AirTag.

Anyway, you're really swimming upstream trying to think of aigtags as an antitheft device. They're really for something lost, not stolen. Generally, they are specifically designed to not work well in adversarial situations.

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cute_boi ◴[19 Dec 24 20:35 UTC] No.42465460[source]▶
i wish police do honey trap more often like put expensive equipment. That will definitely reduce lot of crimes.
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roland35 ◴[19 Dec 24 20:44 UTC] No.42465533[source]▶
Didn't that work well with car theft? I believe reading something like that
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colechristensen ◴[19 Dec 24 20:59 UTC] No.42465648[source]▶
https://mndaily.com/190563/uncategorized/minneapolis-police-...

It's a thing in Minneapolis, though the Kia Boys thing was still very real here, I don't know how much they've kept it up.

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throwaway48476 ◴[20 Dec 24 04:33 UTC] No.42468306[source]▶
Well they're blaming the cars for being too easy to steal and not the thieves, so it's not going well
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mrguyorama ◴[20 Dec 24 17:57 UTC] No.42473217[source]▶
The cars are objectively too easy to steal. Kia made several outright stupid design choices and decided not to spend $100 on BoM to use a tried and tested immobilizer that genuinely helps prevent car theft. They also put the key barrel switches in a location very easy to access, rather than deep in the guts of the steering wheel shaft like most manufacturers.

Kia tried to save itself a few bucks by drastically reducing their product's security. The fact that other cars aren't being stolen at nearly the same rate is itself good evidence that the thieves are just opportunists.

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1. throwaway48476 ◴[21 Dec 24 19:45 UTC] No.42481748[source]▶
Some people leave their keys in the sun shade. They don't complain it's too easy to steal. At some point you have to admit it's a social problem.