Seems like a good way to physically pin down where a hacked computer may be located. Could be useful for people like ransomware authors who infect devices all over the world.
Nothing new, really. Apple created a worldwide network of location scanning devices and this is just leveraging the power Apple already has. The genie is out of the bottle now, and live location tracking has become almost trivial.
So, seeing how this is able to allow a device to be tracked without an alternative bluetooth stack: could the Find My network be (ab)used to geolocate devices without a GPS receiver? If a device broadcasts BLE packets and then queries its own location, that should give a pretty accurate location, shouldn't it? Might save some power if the 5G antenna is active already anyway, assuming there's an Apple user nearby.
Nothing new, really. Apple created a worldwide network of location scanning devices and this is just leveraging the power Apple already has. The genie is out of the bottle now, and live location tracking has become almost trivial.
So, seeing how this is able to allow a device to be tracked without an alternative bluetooth stack: could the Find My network be (ab)used to geolocate devices without a GPS receiver? If a device broadcasts BLE packets and then queries its own location, that should give a pretty accurate location, shouldn't it? Might save some power if the 5G antenna is active already anyway, assuming there's an Apple user nearby.