alt Hacker NewsI hope Apple is paying attention, since their first gen AirTags are vulnerable to voltage glitching to disable the speaker and the tracking warning.
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Vexs • yesterday at 6:12 PM
They're also, as it turns out, vulnerable to a drillbit
mikepurvis • yesterday at 7:09 PM
It's pretty trivial to just open it up and disconnect the speaker too. I took one apart to make a custom wallet card out of it and broke the speaker in doing so; the rest of it worked perfectly fine (though obviously the warning would still work).
saagarjha • today at 10:32 AM
Apple has a team that works on glitching protection for their phones. Disabling the speaker on AirTags is a very different threat model.
tjoff • yesterday at 7:55 PM
Isn't airtags completely and utterly broken, or has anything changed?
I don't see much motivation for fixing that when I can purchase a nrf52xx Bluetooth Beacon on aliexpress for €4 and flash it with firmware that pretends to be 50 different airtags, rotating every 10 minutes, and therefore bypassing all tracker detections.