>FBI and DEA already used modified AirTags that won't notify anyone with an iPhone around to track drug dealers precisely.
Don't Airtags now notify the nearby user if they are being tracked? I have heard of airtags getting modded to remove the speaker but Apple bypassed this with software updates that alert you out of band(as far as I know). Your assertion would require government to have special Airtags that iOS ignores no?
At least one (and I assume all) manufacturers of network hardware have backroom code sharing deals with the NSA, and likely only highest leadership and a single release engineer knows about it.
I personally know a trustworthy release engineer that described in detail they were the person that had to send all new source code for each release to an NSA owned FTP server.
Does that mean Apple is actually doing this too? Hard to say, but when there is no accountability it is best to operate under the assumption the worst is happening. Particularly given Tim Cook is very publicly sucking up to the president every chance he gets.
If apple really wants to (and put their money where their mouth is when it comes to those stupid "Pro Privacy" ads they run), they can start by filing a CFAA lawsuit against said agencies.
The same Apple whose CEO actively kisses the ass of the president buying tickets to be close to him and making him fancy gifts? The same Apple that voluntarily gave the CCP control of all the HSMs controlling the supply chains of all apple hardware in China?
Any claims of privacy or consumer advocacy at Apple are completely just marketing to gullible consumers.
If Apple actually cared about accountability, which is a prerequisite for privacy, they would open source everything so security researchers could reproduce all binaries and easily inspect their sources.
How did they discover it and what was the actual bug? Are you aware of Purism Anti-Interdiction service?
Link if anyone is curious: https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/
>FBI and DEA already used modified AirTags that won't notify anyone with an iPhone around to track drug dealers precisely.
Don't Airtags now notify the nearby user if they are being tracked? I have heard of airtags getting modded to remove the speaker but Apple bypassed this with software updates that alert you out of band(as far as I know). Your assertion would require government to have special Airtags that iOS ignores no?