What are the chance that this keeps working long term?
Sounds awesome & makes airtags more appealing, but if apple is just going to shut it down next week then less so
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Sounds awesome & makes airtags more appealing, but if apple is just going to shut it down next week then less so
OpenHaystack has been doing this for a few years now and Apple has made no efforts to restrict it.
So what you're saying is that a decent firewall could still inspect the traffic, or the patterns thereof.
Also, this doesn't make any sense, as if Apple doesn't know which AirTag belongs to who, Find My would be very useless; and law enforcement would be furious.
Here is Apple’s docs on how they prevent themselves from inspecting traffic on Fmi: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/find-my-security-se...
The tl;dr is: The information is publicly available in an encrypted form that is only readable by the party with the key.
Think of it like this, when you mark an item as lost you publish a hashed public identification key, if another device detects that key it creates a location report encrypted with your public key and posts it to a public list of encrypted reports, you decrypt the report with your private key.
If you mean from another device other than one that your keychain is on, ie, a browser on a device you haven’t logged into before, you can’t.
You can get an active location through iCloud if the device is powered on or its last location before power off if the setting is enabled. But you can’t decrypt find my location reports without the private key, which is only available in devices you’ve logged into.