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Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking::Solution relies in part on cryptography practice of secret sharing to maximize privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Missed the "better idea" which is using part of the rotating ID for something called "secret sharing" that lets you determine which IDs belong together after gathering a few random IDs. Eg, you have 3 IDs and they look unrelated and you get a 4th and boom the math works out and now you know you have a rando airtag in your pocket.