{"id":43483,"date":"2024-06-03T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2024-11-08T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:32:20","slug":"airtag-anti-theft-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/airtag-anti-theft-successes\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTag Anti-Theft Successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elisha Fieldstadt<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

An Apple AirTag led to the arrest of an airline subcontractor accused of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of items from luggage at a Florida airport.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies investigating both suspected thefts cross-referenced Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport employees who lived near Kathy Court and found De Luca at his home. He was arrested Aug. 10.<\/p>

The items reported missing on Aug. 9 were recovered, and De Luca admitted to rummaging through someone else’s luggage and removing an Apple AirTag, the sheriff’s office said. The woman’s luggage has not been found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Paul Duggan<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Twice before, this Virginia carpenter had awoken in the predawn to start his work day only to find one of his vans broken into. Tools he depends on for a living had been stolen, and there was little hope of retrieving them. Determined to shut down thieves, he said, he bought a bunch of Apple AirTags and hid the locator devices in some of his larger tools that hadn’t been pilfered. Next time, he figured, he would track them.<\/p>\n

It worked.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 22, after a third break-in and theft, the carpenter said, he drove around D.C.’s Maryland suburbs for hours, following an intermittent blip on his iPhone, until he arrived at a storage facility in Howard County. He called police, who got a search warrant, and what they found in the locker was far more than just one contractor’s nail guns and miter saws. […] Seth Hoffman, a Howard County police spokesman, said investigators think most of the 15,000 or so tools were stolen in Northern Virginia and Pennsylvania. Howard County is just where they were stashed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n