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AirTags in nutshell :
Pros : Make it easier to find missing people
Cons : Make it easier to make people go missing
You should switch those around
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@@mariodev2188 whait a minute
I did my own experiment to "stalk" some of my friends (with permission, of course). It's actually quite dangerous and can actually be used to stalk people, especially if the person doesn't have an iPhone. I even used it to "follow" my friend over 24 hours and it could still be used... but in the end airtags aren't the most dangerous "stalking device"... but it's the most available.
Yeah they are l I
Arenβt the most dangerous????? You just proved it
@@XVNRX Aren't the most dangerous in the sense that it's not wholly effective - I live in a densely populated city and the airtag has long periods without updates. What I mean is that there are actual dangerous stalking devices, more accurate than the airtag easily accessible.
I agree with the last sentence. There are thousands of other devices avaiable to track people. Tech like airtags has existed for years.
I worked at an organization that supports and provides shelter to survivors of domestic violence and weβve had to increasingly become better trained to find or detect spyware and itβs some of the first things we do with people when they come in. We have auto shops we work with who will look look over cars and take apart the outer accessible parts. Itβs a completely nightmare for a survivor to uproot their family to get safe, only to be undermined and devastated by an abuser who wonβt let them be without them and of course it can be lethal. The moment someone leaves is the riskiest part. Violence tends to escalate when the abuse loses their control.
The ironic thing about Apple's attempts to make them less useful for criminals is that these "improvements" make them less useful for finding a stolen item. For example, last year I had a bicycle stolen that had an AirTag on it. It likely started beeping a few minutes after the thief started moving it, alerting the thief to the AirTag's presence on the bicycle, whereupon the thief could smash the AirTag with a rock.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
@@user-cf4lb8zh9mayooo crazy bot alert
Thatβs why you need to remove the speaker!
A few minutes? Try 8 hours after they moved it. If your bike got stolen overnight and you didn't notice for over 8 hours then sure, maybe it started beeping and they smashed it with a rock then, but it certainly wasn't a few minutes after they stole it. If they found it in a few minutes, you didn't hide it well enough and they just happened to spot the tag and got rid of it.
While on vacation, I gave my 7 year old nephew an AirTag in case he got separated from us and lo and behold he definitely did get separated. His dad called me in a panic and I successfully used the AirTag to find him. They are dangerously useful.
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Until someone else located him
A number of major cities and US states are seriously considering making the sale or use of these illegal. The wife of my sisters boss a long time family freind of ours was stalked and assaulted using these. He and a bunch of other business owners are thinking of actually banning the use of any Apple products on the company premises. This is not a small company either. He was told by the police that was estimated that over 80% of Air Tags were being used to commit crimes.
Thats awful!
There really are two types of people one that work hard like you and one that do anything they can stealing or doing something embarissing just to get some money or some engagement
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They should make a contract inorder to buy these things
Your videos nowadays are getting less-smartphone related, and I still love them. Been a fan for over 3 years. Great videos with interesting topics
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It's always tech related
@@clashoftalents8439 before it was more smart phone related
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@@Mrwhosetheboss yeah
But seriously apple airtag video
Spook me a bit
Nowadays there is not much innovation in smartphones
I use one of these as a dog tag. I know they say not to do that, but the point I'm getting at is that those things make noise whenever the app is accessed. It would be incredibly difficult to hide one of them on someone's person without them knowing about it.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
A woman just found one in her bag or coat pocket (idr which) after getting that notification after leaving a bar a few weeks ago. And she was lucky she got the notification which gave her the info that an apple device had been with her for an extended amount of time before reaching home. That could've been a really bad situation otherwise. We can't have nice things, which might help forgetful people like me, because nefarious assholes are just waiting to exploit everything they can. π€¦π»ββοΈπ
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
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@@thermonuclear1906 dumb comment but ok
I have a friend who I speak with online these days and he had this story for me: His mom saw him packing snacks and stuff into a bag and guessed he was planning to sneak out, she hid an apple airtag in it and when he was there, called him to let him know that she knew exactly where he was. Fortunately, she was ok with and they had a good laugh
@Communist Antarctica Or an abusive partner.
Ik it sucks seeing one's own kids be dishonest, but violating their privacy aint it chief.
Sticking a tracking device into the bag of someone else's minor child without explicit permission is not illegal, LMAO?
@@wesgregg6451 its their mum
@@wesgregg6451 But it's his own mom who puts the tracking device on him
You surely misunderstood
Whats really funny about this is that these videos are making this information more available to people who will use it this way, though I understand its so people can understand how it works, but it makes it more popular
In the same vein, you want to arm and equip everyday people with common sense knowledge around how to protect themselves in the case that something like this does occur. Evil will alaways find methods for their madness, but regular innocent folks need to know what they're up against and how to take the appropriate (proactive and reactive) measures to keep themselves safer.
Was just thinking this myself, I had no idea about till all these videos started talking about it, itβs like a marketing campaign
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I remember reading a saying from a guy in the 60s, he said that in a few years, we would have no privacy, and we will be watched 24/7. He was referring to the security cameras, but now his words are even more accurate, now we have trackers like AirTags.
Technology is scary stuff when misused
Do you think the government cares enough about you to watch you?
@@changedpace9169 eventually, yes. Depends on how much computing power they got, and though they'd just archive your data away, they can choose to examine it whenever they want, if they ever deem you a threat to their power.
@@changedpace9169 Very much so, ever heard of the term "five eyes"?
It's illegal in most countries for your own government to monitor their citizens, it should go without saying that such a thing shouldn't even need any explicit law to already be off the table, yet here we are, however, what isn't illegal is for other countries to monitor you and thus anyone who participates in spying on of their neighbors can freely trade data on each other's citizens as a way around that.
@@vgamesx1 my point is that the government doesnβt give a shit about you, they arenβt going to waste resources to monitor 300 million plus people. They only monitor those who are considered threats to the government or criminals. If you donβt fill your house with cameras and microphone enabled devices you will be completely fine
@@vgamesx1 It's a waste of resources to track every citizen. Unless they have a targeted reason to track you, you are but a record in the government database. The real danger there is that such database is compromised by external forces. External forces that will eventually do their deed if not timely monitored/tracked.
I had the idea to make trackers using old pager airwaves in 2003 - just a simple thing so you could page your keys or whatever it was attached to... I went to a business info access center in Devon UK and they gave me the name of the local patent lawyers - when I contacted them 2 days later they said someone had literally just come to them with the same idea the day before - I wonder who that could have been?
Sounds like you had an Elisa Grey moment!
(Elisa Grey was the inventor of the first functional telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell beat him to the patent office by just a few days.)
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@@umamifan what the fuck are you even talking about
I had the same idea with STICKERS when I was in high school back in 2012 (10 years ago), and I even made a commercial video and presented it to my whole class, haha. I called it the ILT - Item Localizer Thingy, lmao.
@@umamifan Ok flatemar
I remember that, a few months ago, I was at a school field trip when everyone on the bus received a notification that we were being tracked. Nothing (thankfully) has happened so far, but i remember being terrified
Let me start by saying I love using AirTags for their intended purpose. I was just on a flight, where my friendβs luggage was lost. Before flying, she had asked me if I could put one in, since I had put one in my own bag, and since I had an extra one I said sure, I would put one in her suitcase and remove it when all the bags got where we needed to go safely. Well wouldnβt you know, the bag got lost. I was able to track it, and figured out that it did get to the destinations airport, so we were able to find the bag within a few minutes, not wasting time searching the origin airport. So thatβs a really good use of the technology in my opinion. But I can definitely see how it can be used for bad as well. I could imagine, if I was for example a female Uber driver, being scared that an AirTag could be placed on the car, and then Iβd be found home. I can see the argument from both sides. I donβt really have an answer.
Well on one side you had have possible help once a year when you go for holidays. On the other hand if you're a woman any rapist can fellow you home or to the secluded park much much much easier then before..
I never seen a female Uber because they always crash in Egypt until Uber decided to make a background check of the amounts of crashs they had
20% of female are drivers in Egypt the surprise
Is 70% of people crash are female in Egypt lol
Thieves are such a fkn disease. Everyoneβs struggling, but they want to climb on others instead of working hard like the rest of us. Itβs such a fkn burden that people like this exist. Plz excuse my frustration.
Its dumb asf. This is what happens when you put too much trust in technology. You get people using it for bad intentions. That's why Uncle Ben said "With great power, comes great responsibility". Unfortunately, we live in a world full of irresponsible morons and sociopaths
@@toothfairy5352 dw I get youβ¦ my dads I phone 12 got stolen once and it was such a painβ¦π’
People need to learn to work hard instead of stealing from other people because they know itβs wrong and there not gonna get anywhere in life if they keep doing this.
It seems like the air tag also defeats the purpose of tracking your lost item when itβs stolen. So if the robber or thief steals your bags, they might hear the beeping or get notifications if theyβre using iPhone. Thatβs if you or the police finds your bag before 12 hours is up.
Possible solutions :
1. Only police be allowed to silently track stuff.
2. You can silently track your airtag with only your iphone, in a range of 30-50 m from your phone.
3. Once you reach within 5 m of the airtag you're tracking, it'll make noise automatically.
Maybe these can help.
And as for tracking thieves silently, there's no point of confronting a professional thief, only the police are equipped to do so. If the thief is a coworker, then the 5 m alarm shouldn't be a problem.
I think it will contradict with the policy that AirTag is used to track "Lost" items and not "Stolen" items.
If your item is stolen call the police, AirTags wonβt help you.
@@asuprem3307 police aren't always dependable. When my friend's STi was towed and stolen from a Casino parking lot. The cops were no help at all. The event was on camera and all. They only helped when they told him to collect his stripped frame 2 states over on the side of the highway. Which was also ticketedπ€¦πΎββοΈ
You have the option to let it beep if you want. Donβt make any sound with it when tracking your device, work smart
A really good video, didn't know much about the air tags anyway so was really useful and in one respect a really useful product to have why pay for a tracker on your car in case it gets stolen just get one of these.
@Joe they work great too, just depends on which device you use and the proportion is users in your area. For example in the US you would want an AirTag and in Korea you would want a Samsung tag. Proβs and conβs of course exist for both but by the time you account for your phone and the phones around you, itβs not really as important.
@@kushalraj well correction and most of the world you Would want a Samsung tag but in America youβd want an apple tag
Airtag is kinda tech fail. It would have been a useful tracker for all my stuff. I can even hide it somewhere inside my car and it would be an easy tracker. But it won't work because if the thief uses an iPhone, they can easily locate the tracker, or they can just wait for it to beep and just throw it away. The recent updates by Apple kinda defeats the initial purpose of the product.
@@pauljnr2470 just hide it well in a car, somewhere you have to take appart to get to gives them more hassle.
@@mrjustcausegames5330 not really, Iβve spent a significant amount of time in singapore and Australia. In both there are many android users, however less than 70% used Samsung devices because affordable devices are used too. In these cases there are almost as many iPhones as Samsung phones. Many asian countries, Samsungs market share is not significant as their phones are often more expensive than better value android phones.
I havenβt checked the exact numbers so I wonβt assume I know. But my point being itβs too generalist and probably too assumptions that no where outside the US is Samsung not dominant
What a great video. I have just bought these for my dad and was interested to see how well they work. I myself am a Samsung fan and would love to see a video on the galaxy smart tags.
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Apple could make it such that the airtags would not work if their speaker has been disabled or they've been tampered with in any other way. They've already done it with the iPhones, so this should not be a big deal. Also, instead of continually transmitting its location, the airtag's owner would have to request for it. the airtag would beep when it transmits it's location, alerting anyone in its vicinity who could be being stalked. This obviously is not perfect, since the beep may not always be audible or it may also alert a robber of its existence. That was the best solution i could think of though.
It's an excellent advice
Nearly any anti-tamper mechanism can be bypassed. And a speaker can be emulated.
I think they are gluing the speaker so it "triggers" but doesn't move so cant make a sound.
they cant, becuase it literally is so small that the tech is not present for it. they could with the Iphones as there was enough space to fit soemthing that checks for tampering. the airtag does not have that space. and how would requesting location transfer help, the stalkers could just request it. tho they could make it so that a abnormally high amount of requests would send red flags and beep and warn police
@@normalchannel2185 the iphone is a phone
Very compact, not much space
This was a concern when they first released it. The fact that it is cheap, is well hidden and lasts so long and is not easily traceable when away from the person/people who have registered it. I think the registration bit needs to be more seriously handled.
True but how do we do that in a private way for the owner because we donβt want to give any entity be it Apple or a government access to our identity and 24/7 location. While itβs a good point with a good sentiment, would you as a user want to tie your location to your identity?
No, none of that. Sometimes people use tools to do bad things. Does that mean we ban or restrict the tools? Hell no. Grow a pair, softie
@@AverageAlien I never said anything about banning or restricting them. Just tighter security checks. Guns can both protect and murder but they aren't available at your local convenience store now are they? The tags need to be registered with tighter security checks so the people who buy them are held accountable that is all. That would deter any malicious intent. For those who aren't trying to be criminals or murderers why would they have anything to be worried about?
I think the registration is fairly robust, or as much as it can be to protect the AirTag ownerβs privacy as well. They can only be registered to a single Apple account and are non transferable. So even if you set up a dummy account to register the AirTag it youβd need other devices logged into that same dummy account that are going to share that location when the person is tracking the device. There are still going to be some ways around it and bad people are going to do bad things.
@@AverageAlien βthe grow a pair, softieβ is completely unnecessary. Especially when someone is regarding their safety. No one said anything about banning
Another great video! There is something about the videos you create that i find calming making them more enjoyable :) Keep up the fab work and look forward to watching more videos of yours
7:01 the music scared the living hell out of me π i thought it was coming from my echo dot because it sounds like one of the alarms i have to wake me up...at noon... for work lol
We don't appreciate this guy enough, he really made a 10 minute video about the smallest piece of tech and he did it with near TV quality. Amazing!
All the videos he makes is for the channel, not charity.
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He donated everywhere which is including teamseas
Lmao dude he does it for views , subscribers , and his channel not for some Free Social help.
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Yes. I'm glad he made this video or else more people would be endangered by child predators, thieves, or people that like to dox people could have gotten to their homes and possibly dox them.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeI haven't watched the video but what does charity have to do with this video?
Ultimate nightmare scenario: your bag with a tracker gets stolen, the thief finds and removes the tracker and places it in someone else's bag, the other person finds it and reports it to the police, who end up standing on your doorstep wanting an explanation.
When you bag gets stolen you go to AirTag Options and βtagβ it as stolen. so the next person βfindβ the airtag he/she get anonymous data to call you. But yes I understand your Concern. There is no law for gadgets like this. Cβest la vie
Why would a thief place a tracker they can't track without assigning it to their device, in someone else's bag?
@@paran0ia000 because itβs linked to the original AirTags ownerβ¦ if a thief put it in another bag why would he want to track it?
@@bennn1346 he wouldnt the idea is to get the heat of himself and put it on you to stop any attempt to get back your shit
The real nightmare scenario is the thief killed someone and leave your Airtag on the corpse to plant "evidence" back on you
Itβs useful for luggage as nowadays lots of luggage is being lost. My daughter had to catch three flights and the suitcase never made it to her destination, but as she had her tracker it was easier to claim for her suitcase as she knew where it was. After a week she git her suitcase.
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
as a younger teenager, i went to my first weeklong sleep away camp a while ago. i was looking on my phone after getting off the bus and going to my campus' dorms. i got a notification that an airtag was tracking me. the only places someone could have snuck something like that on me was on the bus or at the place i ate lunch that day. i contacted my camp leader and she told me to just ignore it. never found the airtag or the person. it eventually stopped following me.
Couldβve been just someone who tracked their own bag and was just located near you. I have one on my keys so I donβt loose them and every once in a while one of my coworkers gets the tracking notification when their sitting at a desk near me.
I always get notifications about AirPods being with me when on a bus
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
Airtags are actually seriously dangerous thanks for spreading awareness Arun!
How did you watch it so quickly?
@@kaizentruth8098 x2 speed is a life saver
Bro ik what happens with airtags and i was thanking Arun for making the video
@@kaizentruth8098 or he didn't
@@kinwahkan1773 π€even at 2xs a 10 minute video would be 5 minutes but nonetheless, Iβm happy he is spreading the word too
I've heard about this, glad you're addressing the issue, obviously they weren't meant to be used like this but its just concerning
Apple should've at least considered how people might use it for malicious purposes.
@@iloveplasticbottles They did. Hence all the security features.
@@moswanedev hence still ppl are being spied
could be solved easily if they do not allow other iphones lookup other's airtags but still able to use other's iphone network just not notifying them.
@@mosalahmosalahrunningdownt5579 dude , if an unknown airbag is in your car , you will get a notification on your iphone. So , calm down.
Tysm for this video helped me so much since this is actually happening to someone I know
I work at a school where year 5 kids went on a residential nearly half the kids parents air tagged their children against the school rules of the school a few were tagged in two places. A whole new layer of safeguarding policy to rewrite.
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I know right? Which is amazing
You haven't even watched the video yet.
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@@SalveASMR but you know every video he uploads are bangers
@@SalveASMR we already know it's a banger
What I find interesting is how the tech works by piggybacking off other people devices without their prior consent.
This destroys much trust a person has in their devices when they are doing things outside of the persons personal use without being agreed to.
For instance the Bluetooth functionality is accepted because it is user activated and one would assume their phone is not being accessed without permission unless they authorize the connection on their phone themselves.
But what happens when someone finds a way to hack phones when using such trackers to establish a Bluetooth connecting with the device and bypass any security that would deny this.
And there is of course people who would wish to opt out of being apart of the tracker program and they did not buy a phone to then have it used to support other products/services they were not interested it.
I'm curious about how others find this choice of a company to access peoples devices for the purpose of selling others a new product.
that is the one aspect of this apple actually is guilty of. They retroactively opted you as a consumer into this. Now, I don't technically believe this classifies as illegal although it might under some obscure definition. (It would primarily depend AFAIK on whether or not you could choose to avoid updating the device whenever the airtag support was added) Nor do I necessarily believe Apple doesn't have the right to do this. Apple has ALWAYS sold a locked down operating system on devices they control, that's their MO, you knew thats what you were buying, so you could make a convincing case that this is just a step in that process. However, instead of questioning the legality or morality of this which is more or less irrelevant, (since as mentioned it is so complex) lets instead realize who gives a shit because Apple pulls crap on it's consumers constantly and anyone sitll buying Apple products knows damn well what they are getting themselves into. If they somehow don't, let this teach them. The law is fickle, politicians can be bribed, laws have loopholes, but if you just inform people and educate them on what it is they are buying, a company can't bribe more money into existance. If no-one buys their shit, doesn't matter. (and if they ever DID try to somehow bribe more money into existence, it would be a PR nuke) People continue to argue about WHAT Apple does, has done, will do, etc and 9/10 its bad, so why the hell do people keep buying their shit. You haven't just been fooled once, you haven't just been fooled twice, you are inventing new god damn numbers to try to have a hope of recording how many times you have been fooled.
And Apple does this while claiming they care about their users "privacy".
Pretty sure when you accept those software updates itβs in the fine print somewhere lol
@@00700556 No one reads terms and conditions, and why should we expect them to? You expect consumers to read several pages of text to use a product and understand everything written in the text? Terms and conditions are essentially a legal formality; they don't have any practical usage.
Theres obvious concerns imo about apple in the latest years for me for just this weird behaviour, where they try to seclude themselves as the good guys, but then make bonkers decisions that break their own rules about established security and privacy things. Honestly, privacy is a product but it shouldnt be, apple sells themselves as like the only company you should trust, but they are all out on making big bucks from all the people that go with their flow and throw all kinds of money in for products they dont really need or even should buy. Most apple products offer less for more money and dont make sense at all from the big picture. It also shows very well how all this dumbening of the smart products hasnt really made lives easier but people dumber. I honestly dont even trust their secrecy on most things they do cause it sure does seem sometimes that they either are brainwashing people with false claims or just reversed advertising or just are more deeply in the US gvn than people think. Steve Jobs, altough he was an uptight asshole of hippy, wouldnt certainly be happy about apple in this day and age. It shows well in reviews also that people are so biased towards calling everything apple makes so wonderful and perfect, while i have many times more issues since i bought my 12 pro max and updates from my 300 euro honor 10. It doesnt feel like a complete product with all those downfalls of bugs, lags and just stuff not working how it should in logical sense. All worked perfectly on android and even when it got slow i knew i could count on it handling everything i wanted. Basically, i work at an apple store, but i dont recomment apple anymore. I dont care how great their chips are or how the ecosystem works together, if it means youre pretty much joining a jail with no way out.
I totally see the major issue these products are causing and I find it very scary. Although I do also see a flip side. The issue I see here, is that I guess from apples point of view and the point of view of people who want to use the product to genuinely protect their own stuff which is what it is designed for is, say someone steals my car / bag / wallet whatever, and Iβm trying to get it back. The thief could be alerted to the AirTag and disable it, therefore rendering the air tag useless for the reason it was designed.
They don't even have to disable the air tag, they just need to throw it away.
It was designed for this purpose. Apple has always lied. It's almost 2023 and you're still giving Apple excuses...
it wa made for lost, not stolen possessions
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
Good vid but I was laughing to much from " And then I'm going to stalk someone myself."
Wasn't expecting a video today but you always manager to brighten up my day. Thanks Arun!
High productivity man
Bayern munich eh
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@Aj sharma yeah ik bro I'm just joking
Itβs amazing how good your videos are this year! Keep it up ππΌ
3:49 "TAG-tical"π...TEST-tical...
Great review.
20+ years ago, all you needed for somebodyβs home was the nearest yellow pages.
On the serious note, you are absolutely right about people putting tags in nice cars. The Hellcats and Scat Packs of the Mopar community are getting tracked a lot.
i've thought about removing the speakers on 5 of my airtags due to them being hidden in my own vehicles incase someone steals my vehicles, the fact that speakerless versions are for sale on ebay from being modified will lead me to research on how to do it myself so the robber doesn't find them when he's in the middle of trying to hide my vehicle from public view and happens to own an iphone.
Counter Airtag tactic.
Just open the airtag and cut speaker wire, done.
Your vehicle will most likely be chopped up or shipped overseas, meaning your airtag won't do much to get your vehicle back. Reselling a vehicle as is is the dumbest thing a criminal can do since every vehicle had a Vin which makes it extremely easy to prove who really owns it as well as it can never get registered in the United states
Don't vehicles have better and more complex tracking technology including kill switch?
Newer trend is just stealing parts from vehicle because of this
I hate that they start beeping when I work late. I have AirTags on my pets. Since my cats are indoor and will escape occasional when I have visitors not paying any attention. I use the AirTag to locate my cat hiding somewhere outside a ways from the house
Your transition, charisma just made me sub. Such a clean Chanell
I'd say the one big thing Apple needs to do to make sure AirTags and other Find My network connected gadgets to stay in non-malicious hands is to just work with Google or even build a fork of AOSP and pull in an ambient BLE module with alerts and passive monitoring, this could also help them open up and widen the Find My network to the billions of Android devices worldwide.
Exactly! They should work with Google to come up with something as this is actually a serious safety concern.
Apple refuses to work with Google for RCS, let alone to add some universal protocol for AirTags.
Apple couldnβt care any less about android users, and they hate Microsoft ππ
@@LouisSubearth Nope, theyβre likely to work with Google to in that matter. Because they already allow AirTags on android.
@@Racko. AirTags have an NFC chip in them, but that's about it for Android interfacing.
This is a brilliant way to make non apple users to buy apple products just to make them check for any airtags following you
Exactly what i think the reason apple made this
Thatβs creepy if itβs even remotely right
Creating a problem to sell solutions
Still not buying anything apple
That's kinda scary in a way, I own a android. But to actually realize I might be tracked and not know at all.
They should make it so you have to type the purpose of the thing you want to use the airtag for. Like example, wallets, phones, etc.
I've had my AirTag stolen. The airtags are terrible if you want to track your devices because the batteries can be disconnected from the AirTag. So a thief can use to AirTag and track the person. If you do get an AirTag and use it as a key chain just make sure the apple AirTag cannot be opened.
I can only imagine my fear if I was told there was an AirTag on me. I would be terrified and check all of my pockets. Stalkers have always freaked me out.
I think the reason they scare me so much is just the idea of a random person watching someone else. *shivers*
@@ellecharlie6822 theres no need for you to be scared of stalkers, nobody cares about you enough to stalk you.
@@li6htw4y46 but no one cares to him but to your's is no one loves u
@@GogoGaga7352 did you have a stroke typing that?
@@xrainbowdash4963 It's honestly mind blowing that i can still understand what he tried to say.
Honestly its kinda scary that air tags work by communicating location information to random apple devices. This is straight out of my nightmares of if apple had complete control of the markets.
I actually recently got a notification on my iPhone myself about an unknown AirTag having been following for a while. This was after a international flight and I had gotten to my room, and for a moment I was terrified. I was already in another country alone for the first time and then I was told someone was using an apple product to track me. It didnβt help I knew hardly anything about air tags (apple isnβt doing a great job advertising the danger for apple users either). When it said to find the tag and contact the police, I did everything to try and find the tag slipped into my luggage or somewhere and couldnβt. Eventually I just thought I had to ignore it and it went away. Weeks later and I still donβt know what spurred it or what happened to it or if Iβm still being tracked.
After watching MKBHD vid on the blue vs green checkmark debacle in regards to SMS and why people are social status on it in america, it really does rain in quite hard. They say around 70% of people between 18-24 have an iphone. Apple's grip on the phone market stateside is pretty tight here so yeah it is pretty insane
""Quality"" Apple products right there, try Samsung instead!
How did the airtag send you a notification about an unknown one? I had accidentally taken a friend's airtag instead of mine and nothing happened.
Same happened here when I got of the NYC subway. Got home and received a notification that I was being followed by an unknown device. I dumped everything I had on the bed looking for it, and later found that it was someoneβs else AirTag that was on them going in a similar direction.
@@Defensive_Wounds Samsung smart tag is the same to air tags. The only difference is that airtag has larger network than samsung making it more accurate.
I found one in a parcel once. I had bought something on a site which allows you to not disclose your location and address, The seller brings the parcel to the post office with a code and the post office issues the address and sticks it to the parcel after the seller is gone. But there was a tag inside the parcel so this completely ruined the anonymity and i actually moved two weeks after that after reporting the seller to the police and the police waited for the seller to burglarize my place and when he came he was caught and arrested and the tag was traced back to him.
Now if i used any kind of online shopping from people to people with anonymity i collect the parcel at the post office myself and check it entirely before i bring it home. But to be honest i have almost completely stopped buying online because of this.
I also check my bag and clothes constantly when i am on my way home but how can you check your car constantly. The fact that this is legal to sell is ridiculous. It was marketed for bad people i am certain of this, not for good people to keep tracks of their belongings.
Because if someone steals your stuff the first thing they are gonna do is check for a tag and when they find it they will put it in a balloon inflate it and throw it in a river or inflate with helium.
The only thing an air tag is good for it to attach to the collar of your pet, that&s the only good use of it.
I was on a sleepover trip with my summer camp a few weeks ago and me along with many others in the camp had the alert that they were being tracked by an airtag or an airpod.
Seriously, thank you for this public safety announcement. It's one of the reasons I like your channel so much!
Everyone donβt call this number from this fake WhatsApp it will break your phone making you get called 1000 times by different phone numbers every second it will give them your date of birth your passwords name age and everything like that with your credit card info
@@loganvr9490 thank you for telling me.
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thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
His videos are so well explained that I am in a kind of trance while watching his videos. Usually I get sick of a video in 10min but his videos are so engaging plus they are so awareness spreading which at times can save your life. Who agrees?
Tysm for the likes ;))
This guy makes me interested
I do. He has seamless and unpredicted transitions, text randomly appearing on screen, background lights to stimulate the eye, a quick and fast speech to keep our attention. It's like he took everything attention-grabbing, compelling, and interesting then threw them into one pot and stirred.
Ppl nowadays watch shorts most of the time
@@nikhilpranav6915exactly
Everyone
i think my solution in this problem is basically you get a notification if theres a airtag near you and you can confirm if its yours or not by clicking yes or no. if its not urs then the airtag shuts off (im assuming that air tags can be shut off since i dont really own one so i dont know how it works) ofc you have to check if there actually a airtag with you before clicking no because it could be someone else airtag that Ur phone is tracking so now you have "yes" which means the airtag is urs , "no" if it's not urs , "not mine but also not with me" it mean that it's tracking someone else so it will ignore that airtag
New to you. Just watched your video, impressed, so subscribed. By the way... Josh spent over 30E in the private shop!
and for the real reason iβm hereβ¦ to hear what pun was used during the video 3:43 ππ€£
Tbh Airtags in themselves aren't bad - I find it useful to track my car without worry for a year about the battery and by backpack in case it gets lost or stolen. But as always it's people's fault something possibly good is used for bad things...
Yeah I keep one on my keys so I can find it around the house before I leave. My backpack. Car. Its just like cars. Just because people are running over others doesnβt mean cars should be illegal
@@toptiertech7291 then they should be registered like cars are.
I can easily get owners information using lisence plate. It should be same with air tags.
@Joe Not at all! It's a real threat that needs to be discussed and people need to be made aware. Also, Arun already asked the question in the video - Is it actually Apple's fault? And touched on Apple's security measures and their flaws, So he covered that, But then many people don't actually fully listen or watch a whole video before they comment. There's no need for Apple just to stop selling them, But it should be people's choice if they don't want to use them in certain situations, Or at all, AND to be aware of this stuff happening and take precautionary measures as Arun suggested - Which is helpful for many people.
@Joe apple shill detected π€‘π€‘π€‘
@Joe security measures my foot
Your explanation and quality if videos are exceptional. ππtruly amazing
Itβs great for you to raise awareness about this! Keep making great videos!
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
This can be REALLY dangerous if used incorrectly. Imagine being stalked by someone and they happen och be able to pop one of these in your bag. If you loose the stalker and preceed to walk home, he will know the exact location of your house and will from there basically do whatever he wantsβ¦.
FYI ...when your phone and AirTags in same bag your phone registered in a sec that AirTag ...
when you take your phone from your bag .....shows phone browser AirTag informations !
@@firstsoldier4257 Thatβs only for Apple though I think. Makes it extremely dangerous against anybody with an android.
@@PresidentShrubbery kk imma buy an iPhone real quick I'm shook
neat. get a gun. This has always been a threat, the only reason it's getting publicity now is because Apple is doing it and it's forcing people to realize how little agency they take in their own safety.
@@robonator2945 I think youβre forgetting that its hard to get a gun in many countries
I currently have 4 of them and when I was leaving my 2 Timelapse Rigs out on location for days at a time I felt good that I could see every once in a while that it was still on location without a monthly subscription but I can see how bad this could be
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD...........
Apps can keep work in terminated states, you need to use native language of the system. It's a huge security concern, and providers only support with their system. So you have to use firebase for ios to keep getting data from the device when it's closed. Similar android
how do u know if it's still checking your location if you dismiss it the first time?
Now that is a true tech channel not just smartphones, you actually take the steps to tell people about tech it's advantages and shortcomings. π₯π₯
Great Videos, Awesome Topics π₯
the scariest part is not the airtag itself, but the way is works. I can own an apple product and dont want/ dont have airtags, that doesnt matter, my device will be used to track them. That is the thing that really scares me the most.
Why? Why should you be scared? The information just gets passed on, and no one can intercept it or track the source.
This guy is just fearbaiting yβall
@@alespic true. I can , from only hearing the video, understand why people gets scared over it tho.
@@vishnubharathit6192 it was almost definitely in the TOS, which he agreed to
You can optout by turning off findmy network in your phone settings
@@vishnubharathit6192 it is in the tos, and when an unfamiliar airtag is following you, your phone gets a notif
It's also been used to Skip School. I am a person at high school who sees this a lot, like People Lying and just getting out of class that easy.
8:18 look on the phone, it saysβ¦
He canβt help himself lol
This is so scary I didnβt know these mini devices can track people like that
Even cheaper ones can
You'd be surprised. People are wild, literally one video I saw there was hidden Cams everywhere in a hotel room, like 50 of them in every nook and cranny including inside the shower head.
"I didn't even know mini devices can track people like that"
bruh, this is just dumb. How can you not know any of this tracking stuff. Unless you are a kid or new to the internet.
Guess phones are scary now
Tbf everything can track you, it's just these apple airtag make it easier
Almost any technology can be misused but the reason AirTags are being misused so much is that they work pretty darn well for their price. I'm surprised Apple's own internal review and marketing teams never thought to raise this issue.
I am pretty sure they did and I would gladly believe that one asshole might have even said "Well they should buy an iPhone to know who is tracking them"
@Joe how exactly? You will never know if you have an AirTag on you if you donβt own an iPhone. On Android you have to manually initiate a scan to know if there is an AirTag near you. Devices that run anything older than iOS14.5 will not be able to detect the AirTag and there is no alternative for those devices.
@Joe Way to put the burden to ordinary citizens than to push Apple to find a solution. Seems like airtag is much more concerning than robberies itself.
@@berryx8192 "You can just download the app so you can track airtags that may or may not be an issue."
"Nobody I trust has explicitly confirmed this niche issue, therefore it's not true."
"Don't want to get the app? Get a new iPhone. Surely you aren't poor enough to buy a new iPhone?"
"Not listening to your counterarguments, I muted you already lol.
Like, what the heck is wrong with Joe? It's like they're just blocking their ears and refusing to listen to anything.
@Joe yes bro I will open the app everytime I go out to see who is trailing me. Nice solution.
"were you in the private shop?"
Josh:"nO"
I just had this happen to me. I was on vacation and while we were walking around downtown someone slipped an AirTag in the hood of my coat. The thing is so light I didnβt even realize it.
By the time I got the notification from my iPhone it had been hours and the AirTag had tracked me back to our rental, and even tracked the walk I went on with our dogs after I got back to our rental.
I noticed it sent the notification in the middle of the night/early morning.. so I saw it when I woke up. Thank god I noticed it before we drove home because it was our last day there. But itβs scary how easy someone can be tracked with one of those.
Like, I have no idea who slipped it into my jacket hood..all it took was probably passing the person on the street, or in a store.
4:21 was the best π
Iβm fairly security conscious. I also hardly ever use Bluetooth devices, so of course I always have my Bluetooth turned off to conserve battery.
You just answered the question as to why every iOS update since around 14,2 has force-enabled Bluetooth even without the userβs awareness and consentβ¦
Not a good mark on Appleβs tab sheet, if you ask me!
AirTags don't use bluetooth
@@foamylemming3912 The video comes across to me as stating that AirTags use Bluetooth, and have an optional BT wideband mode thatβs activated for precise location by a nearby device when required.
If I understand the inner workings correctly, an AirTag will broadcast its ID on a constant basis (Using BTLE this is very light on the battery) and any nearby Apple device - If it has BT enabled - Will forward that AirTag ID along with that devices present location to Apple and Find My. @Mrwhosetheboss might be able to clarify if this is indeed correct. :-)
If AirTags donβt employ Bluetooth, which radio communication standard *are* they employing?
One thing I can say - Hand on heart - Is that AirTags *arenβt* communicating directly with mobile/4G/5G or WiFi networks. There is no way an AirTag could use those means of communication and still get a years operation out of a CR2032 button cell! :-)
Even if people could turn off their Bluetooth it would ping off other people's iphones
Having location services on gives them consent
Did they have many good marks on their tab sheet in the first place?
the quality and editing was insane !!
0:05 Arun's scared voiced really made me laugh ππππ
Man I love the content you put out.. it's so informative being straight to point and explains almost all aspects of the subject.. It's amazing the effort that goes behind producing these videos keep it up Arun.. we absolutely love and enjoy it!
I use air tags to track my property. The first thing I do is disassemble the airtag and disable the speaker so if it notifies the theif they are being tracked they wont be able to find the tag by playing a sound; they will have to abandon my property to end the tracking because in some cases they will never be able to find it because it is so well concealed.
omfg....
It does kindoff defeat the purpose to notify the theif right?
lmao the ending "what daa"πππ
I started watching recently but am super stoked that you present information in such an unbiased and informative manner
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
About 20 years ago I was a technician at a research company that was working on cutting edge tech for the time like wearable and tablet computers, video compression, ADSL and wireless networking. Most of the prototypes and products we used Apple has since made their own shiny white version and pretended it invented. A guy came there to give a talk about this concept of short range radio devices signal piggybacking on each other in a sort of physical cloud. Even back then my first thought was it was a terrible idea and would be an absolute security nightmare. And I was just thinking about the data being insecure, I didn't even consider the location tracking aspect. Crazy times.
This stuff's scary
0:25 RICK AND ROLLED!
Tricktrolled!
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Great, so now I not only have to keep my bag close to me, I also have to make sure it doesn't have the open side pockets for creeps to drop things in it.
Man the effort put into those video. The editing. The plot. The execution. The jokes. All the stuff. Its a masterpiece. Its a dream
The fact that they're so small makes them very easy to conceal as well. Atleast Apple is aware of the problem. Hopefully they'll come with a good solution eventually.
No it good like this not true
they wont cuz thier moneygrabing methoods
@@gearsgamer7115 riiiight
Apple will come with a solution.
And then price of these tags will be 299$
@@kunal_221 they are not going to up the price, even if they do it wont be much
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I love how he says βinstead try to go got to a PLAYSTATIONβ
The anti track feature does work after 24 hrs. I bought an airtag to track my own bike and I use an Android phone. I setup the air tag with my iPad and was already disappointed to find out iPad doesn't support UWB. On the 2nd day, the airtag keeps beeping when I use it to bike to classes. Although I was carrying my iPad with the Bluetooth on. I think the air tag thinks my android phone is being followed (the Bluetooth on my phone is also on) so it doesn't stop beeping until I remove the battery. I returned the airtag the following day. Definitely don't get an airtag if you're using an Android phone.
if you think about it then apple is being racist towards android
I didn't see it this way but now that I think of it, it kinda is. If tile can make it work across platform through an app, Apple probably can too.
Doesn't Samsung have their own tags though?
@@coolboss999 They do.
I'm planning to do this myself (also use an iPad and an Android phone), but my thinking is I'll remove the speaker altogether.
Finally found someone who looks as both sides of the road. Love your content!!
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Has anyone noticed that just recently Apple seems to have reduced the amount of times the AirTag 'pings' when around other Apple ID devices? AKA on a keyring your spouse is carrying around. I think this is recent. Apple denied it on chat, but I think they're trying to reduce liability.
How do you learn to turn off the notification so the car thief doesnβt know an AirTag is following them??? Doesnβt that defeat the whole purpose?? You donβt WANT the thief to know theyβre being followed!
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
Great video! Btw that you spelled surfshark vpn as "surfock" vpn!ππ
One fact that stopped Airtags criminal use is that they are actually quite expensive in some countries. Brazil, for example, has lots and lots of crime, but the 4 airtags pack costs as much as a minimum monthly wage here, so, not really worth it. Not only that, but nearly as much people here have iphones than in other parts of the world, so, airtags wouldn't be so accurate.
So, in subdeveloped countries using airtags to stalk people isn't really a concern, at least not for normal people.
" not for normal people" lol
Exactly that's what im saying. People are acting like that air tags are a actual threat. When normal trackers are cheaper and don't have any security precautions.
I have disconsidered buying an AirTag just because people here don't usually have iPhone and would make tracking impossible
@@hoover1150 there's a app on andriod phones that allows you to see air tags. The apps also by apple.
You can't call it "not sub developed country issue" because if Apple products were made affordable in all countries, then more people will have it. Its not the country's economy alone that determines the product cost.
on the flipside, an airtag should be able to go in reverse, showing you locations of apple devices in your area. that would be pretty useful but that could be sketchy and a nefarious use haha
The best thing would be to just scrap it for now and rethink the design maybe? I mean having the tag beep is a dead giveaway to anyone who stole your stuff, making it useless for people who want to use it to just protect their stuff. At the same time a period of 24h where a thief can track you downright sucks as well.... Considering that the harm it can do is greater than the help it can provide to users, just disabling all of them is better for now.
This is madness and mind blowing. We live in a crazy world and security is such a big thing now. Hopefully Apple are able to cut down the response time and maybe even add the touch recognition feature. And maybe write a code for when the AirTag is used for a different item. The horizon for this small chip to be manipulated is endless.
I think a better solution would be to show on the apple map any unknown airtags nearby. You would know when someone is stalking you.
@@nragen who the fuck uses *apple maps* though? Do you want to end up in Atlantis or something?
ye
@@somerandomgamer8504 idk I'm not an apple user
@@somerandomgamer8504 a lot of people
this is a really cool informative video of the safety aspect of these tags, the major thing that shocked me is that the tags are so cheap for being an apple product, i didn't realise how good they were but i am a sucker for losing stuff so i think it might be a worthwhile investment for me
thats because we are born spiritually death ,the first humans rebelled against GOD and got cursed with death their body would die their spirit died and their soul would go to hell forever, alot of people died trough adam!, but GOD so loved the world that HE sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON that trough HIM alot of people can be saved from hell and gain everlasting life, and get spiritually alive! JESUS said if youre not BORN AGAIN trough water and SPIRIT you cannot enter the kingdom of GOD......
The stalker in his room legit scared me.
For the record, Android is now automatically scanning for those trackers too. My Android informed me about my own Air Tags following me around.
It would be VERY simple to make the AirTag ping once each time the location is viewed (and/or add a vibration engine). This would help deter trackers tremendously. Also Apple is good at blocking third party repairs, seems to me they would be able to make it nearly impossible to unhook the speaker. If they wanted to live up to their privacy claims, they would offer free upgrades from original AirTags to AirTags 2, while removing all original AirTags from the system. The solutions are out there, if they would just do it.
The thing is that makes no sense, since your own AirTag isn't a threat to you there's no reason for them to put resources into it, and on the other hand also people who actually mean harm with this device are not interested at all in trading the security threat device they just bought for a device with more security features. The only real solution to this is fix as much threats as they and start selling only the updated version of this product
That second solution though would be HORRENDOUS for the environment though, for the average person would most likely just throw it away rather than recycle it properly (via a tech recycling center). Your first one though is also redundant, because like Arun said in the video, speaker-less AirTags are being sold, meaning that the feature would just be bypassed in the same way.
@@lucastillej0 Hence the need to block third party repairs. And to get a new AirTag, you would be required to return the old one. I just canβt stand to see the idea die, it is so handy, there are just a few bugs to be worked out.
This kind of ruins a significant use in the case of theft of a backpack or bag. I wouldn't upgrade, and thanks to the replaceable battery, I needn't to either.
@@Lauren_C You are correct there, hadnβt thought of that. My boss uses them to track his trucks, in the event one would be stolen, thing is, the AirTag may notify them if their using an iPhone after 8 hrs anyway. π