"Pull This Product From Sale"
Glenn Fleishman, Six Colors:
ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the back panel and battery from an AirTag, position the Silencer’s highly engineered pin over the speaker, tap the pin with a hammer, and the AirTag’s speaker is destroyed. This prevents it from emitting an alert in three circumstances, only one of which is triggered by an owner. The other two scenarios aid stalkers and perpetrators of domestic violence, among others.
Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation was quoted as saying:
There is a reason why the AirTag makes that noise, and it is because you cannot make a tracker that does not alert a thief without also making a person a tool for stalking. I think these people have, in fact, considered the implications and decided that they don’t care.
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Link:
- Silencing AirTags enables stalkers and domestic violence, by Glenn Fleishman, Six Colors