A security flaw means the location of devices used by police, potentially including undercover officers and those travelling home, is visible to anyone with a phone or laptop.
  • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    You can get RSSI and guesstimate the distance. Since it’s on a phone, you have the phones coordinates.

    If the objects are moving in relation to each other, you can attempt a rudimentary triangulation. Its error prone, but you don’t need 100% accuracy.

    I worked at a startup where we built industrial grade “apple air tags” and used phones to locate objects. This was like 10 years ago nowadays.