{"id":35107,"date":"2022-02-23T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35107"},"modified":"2022-02-23T14:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:58:03","slug":"bypassing-airtag-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/23\/bypassing-airtag-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Bypassing AirTag Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2022\/02\/bypassing-apples-airtag-security.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2022\/02\/bypassing-apples-airtag-security.html\"><p>A Berlin-based company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/02\/22\/apple_airtags_protections_bypass\/\">developed<\/a> an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple&rsquo;s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.<\/p><p>So now we have several problems with the system. Apple&rsquo;s anti-stalker security only works with iPhones. (Apple wrote an Android app that can detect AirTags, but how many people are going to download it?) And now non-AirTags can piggyback on Apple&rsquo;s system without triggering the alarms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2022\/01\/tracking-secret-german-organizations-with-apple-airtags.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2022\/01\/tracking-secret-german-organizations-with-apple-airtags.html\">\n<p>A German activist is trying to track down a secret government intelligence agency. One of her research techniques is to <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/01\/25\/apples-airtag-uncovers-a-secret-german-intelligence-agency\">mail Apple AirTags<\/a> to see where they actually end up[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In a similar story, someone used an AirTag to <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/01\/19\/army-wife-uses-airtag-to-track-late-moving-truck-driver-during-a-relocation\">track<\/a> her furniture as a moving company lied about its whereabouts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/10\/airtag-updates-to-address-unwanted-tracking\/\">AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/car-thieves-using-airtags\/\">Car Thieves Using AirTags<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/airtag-bug-enables-good-samaritan-attack\/\">AirTag Bug Enables &ldquo;Good Samaritan&rdquo; Attack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier: A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple&rsquo;s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.So now we have several problems with the system. Apple&rsquo;s anti-stalker security only works with iPhones. (Apple wrote an Android app that can detect AirTags, but how many people are going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-23T19:58:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"b78cb25f-dc7f-42fe-810d-33d16516a407","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-23T19:58:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/At4yyX9x_Qv6BDTPRZRakBw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2056,355,48],"class_list":["post-35107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airtag","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35108,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35107\/revisions\/35108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}