I can’t imagine how this could go poorly. /s
Best way to detect that?
For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?
There is no good solution. Daily life is littered with bluetooth, gps, and other devices, from watches to appliances to car stereos, many of which are not clearly named at all. You can Use a bluetooth scanner app like LightBlue to see what devices are around you as many of the trackers use bluetooth connections as well. Check for unfamiliar devices with strong signals if you park your car someplace away from others in a parking lot or something.
why is tiktok even still a thing. didn’t it get banned? can it pls die already?
I have just realized that in of 2020 TikTok was about to get banned in US by Trump administration and he even signed an executive order for the ban. But since he lost elections later that year, ban was reversed by Biden administration.
THE FUCKING SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED IN REVERSE IN 2025 when Biden’s admin ordered it to be banned in january and it was unbanned (postponed ban) 3 times with the last one lasting until September.
I call extreme sus on this one. There are weird powers around tiktok that are/were important in info-war and elections in general.
Taco
Tik tok submitted to the US government (probably for a massive bribe) so it’s here to stay so long as people keep using it.
What? They haven’t changed anything since they were supposed to be banned.
Trump just keeps pushing back the deadline. Right now it’d be banned Sept 17th, but presumably he’ll push it back again.
It’s just too popular for the administration to take the flak for it disappearing while they’re in office
tiktok is the kim kardashian of social media so naturally the government likes to keep it around to keep people dumb
This post is like a kid who grew up in country clubs and gated neighborhoods just finding out that people illegally sell drugs.
This kind of spy tech has been available and marketed the same way for decades. The only difference is that these are small.
Yeah, but they used to be fairly obvious. Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested. I think it’s good they’re keeping this in the public eye.
Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested.
Really? I’m almost 50 and this is the first time I’ve ever heard that. Do you have any data to back up that claim?
https://www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker
I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.
I’m fully aware of how to search the internet, how GPS trackers work, and how they are used.
The part I’m skeptical of is that mechanics routinely pull them off women’s cars and that people were arrested. That sounds like FUD to me.
I think it’s less that it’s disproportionately effecting women and moreso the bias that women are more likely to notice and report for social reasons. It’s kinda like with folks getting drugged at bars, one of my buddies got drugged and he just went to sleep in his car no police report no nothing.
Are these compatible with ICE vehicles?
Yes and electric vehicles too
(ICE is also an acronym used to refer to internal combustion engines in automotive circles)
(we gotta stop using acronyms for mundane things like this, it’s confusing)
Use LoRa instead of sim cards so they can’t tell who bought it though
If one lives in an area with tons of LoRa enthusiasts, this might work exceptionally perfect.
or Elmo’s plane
God damn! How badly do you want to tickle Elmo???
I want to tickle him with my 3d printed open source fast moving optically tracking high altitude fun time payload delivery spicy tube
Got a link to it on thingiverse?
I want to print one so bad, so pretty, I want a full size one on my desk. I’m going to write “Goodbye Elmo” on it.
https://youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems
His logo leaves very little to the imagination
A friend of mine has a relative who is doing several years in prison for shit like this. It took about 14 times of him getting caught doing variously more aggressive, stalker things towards his ex partner before he was finally incarcerated for any length of time.
Motherfuckers need to start letting shit go, and we need to start holding people accountable and providing services for their mental illnesses in the states.
providing services for their mental illnesses in the states.
Statistics show that this would cost less money than engaging the unwell with police, but then how would we justify huge police budgets?
we could, I dunno, quantify which results in better outcomes over time: a jacked up roided police force responding to mental health problems by criminalizing the suffering, or, I guess, maybe… provide some mental health services?
seems fraught with potential.
TikTok shop also sells glock switches (to make them automatic pistols), galaxy gas/nitrous tanks and god knows what else.
You can buy nitrous ANYWHERE, so I wouldn’t blame TikTok for that.
This is why America is the best nation in the known universe.
I can tell just from looking that they’re just btle not gps. Thankfully both Google and Apple tell you when a tag on their networks is traveling with you. So either these are trash because they’re not on the two largest networks that share data, or they’re useless because they are and if you have a smart phone it’ll warn you.
I’ve seen some pretty small GPS trackers with cell modems, I wouldn’t be surprised if these were that instead depending on the price.
Fortunately they hold the charge for realistically short time and therefore are limited in use.
It has way less to do with the size of the device and more to do with the size of the battery. Not much room left at all between the cell modem and GPS antenna required to make that thing work.
Indeed, the models I have seen have a very short battery life, or check in infrequently, or only check in when movement is detected, or use cell signal triangulation to save battery, etc.
At the end of the article they say many of the listings have terrible reviews because the safety features in FindMy were triggered.
If any of these devices use the networks Google and Apple made, they are not gps.
I saw the same or a very similar ad on Facebook after a reel somebody sent me.
Ok, horrifiying implications of the main story aside, why are you on facebook at all???
I try not to be there anymore, but there are still vestiges . But there are some group stuff i am trying to get to migrate to other places. This was a link somebody sent me.
Now that I think about it that commercial might have been on snap between stories. Snap is also bloating up fast these days.
