The science behind this one confuses me. Bluetooth is short range, and gps is too low power to penetrate. There’s no way a gps will get lock from inside a ship, and someone would need a compatible app and internet to relay it out.
The issue isn’t the tracker, it’s the person with their personal phone and the app that relayed the position of the tracker while they were in cell range of the shore.
Stories like this always feel like misdirection efforts to deflect blame from the actually responsible devices and organizations. The amount of normalization of openly-broadcasting-at-all-times cellphones in our society can’t really be explained with anything less than an overwhelming multi-level propaganda campaign.
Who needs spies anymore when you can just convince everyone, even military personnel, to carry around an always-on camera and microphone with onboard power and various long-range wireless options (and get them to willingly keep it continuously charged for you!)
WTF are we doing to ourselves and why anybody tolerates this nonsense I have no idea.
Yes!
An diplomats/CEOs using Teslas!
- Optical cameras are mandated at Musk’s insistence, despite lidar being better.
- Built in cell modem for “over the air updates”.
- Massive processing onboard for “interpreting the cameras”.
- Microphones and cameras inside to “ensure the driver is paying attention”.
- Big ass batteries for driving and keeping sky kit running.
- Get the targets to pay for the spy gear themselves.
How does the tracker communicate its position?
In general:
- The tracker sends out low-energy Bluetooth announcements including its unique id
- a nearby iPhone hears those announcements
- the iPhone uses its current location
- the iPhone sends the tracker id and the location back to Apple via WiFi or cell
- Apple notifies the owner of the tracker where the tracker was seen
