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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jan@social.janantos.com wrote:
@Netzblockierer @the_wub @itgrrl @amydiehl if someone really want to track you there are better ways to do it, even average technical skilled person will pit together esp32, gps module, sim800 gsm model and prepaid m2m simcard and lion battery and fairly short micropython script and sick it at the bottom of your car. All those things you can buy really low profile from different vendors and good luck trying to track it back to bad actor.
So lets count BOM
Esp32c3 module 6 Eur
Sim800 module 7 eur
Lion-battery 10 eur
GPS module 15 eur
Some other stuff around 5 eur
Total 43 eur (lets say less than 2x more than AirTag, but realtime tracking working)And now the point, I think none of commentators here will argue they are bad technology. But if bad actor put them together, here we go. And the same in most cases applies to almost any technology.