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How sensitive is the phone's "I'm being tracked" algorithm? It doesn't go by tag owner but by Bluetooth Mac.

If I I buy 4 tags, register them all to me, overwrite the firmware on one so it rotates between 4 IDs, once every 15 minutes, then the phone won't see the tag as following it. Hell, you could glue 4 of them to transistors, a power supply, and a circuit to turn them on and off in rotation without modding the firmware.



Or you could just spend a few bucks more and get a GPS tracker that's 100% undetectable.


Why wouldn't it see 4 tags as following it, then?


It might! I don't know what's in Apple's closed source blob that implements the "am I being stalked" behavior and what parameters actually trigger it. Maybe you need to rotate between 60 tags, or 600.


In which case Apple could notice that 600 tags from the same guy tend to float around you...




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