Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System

Overnight, Apple has turned its hundreds-of-million-device ecosystem into the world’s largest crowd-sourced location tracking network called o~ine finding (OF). OF leverages online finder devices to detect the presence of missing o~ine devices using Bluetooth and report an approximate location back...

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Main Authors: Heinrich Alexander, Stute Milan, Kornhuber Tim, Hollick Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-07-01
Series:Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2021-0045