Apple’s Find My Network Function Is Faulty
May 13, 2021 09:10 GMT
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Find My Network
Apple's Find My Network used to monitor iOS and macOS devices, as well as more recently AirTags and other products, turns out to be a spying tool.
Apple devices can be used to send data over the air from one location to another, such as a computer on the other side of the planet, without the need for any other network connection.
This can be achieved using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) broadcasts and a microcontroller designed to act as a modem. Fabian Bräunlein, the co-founder of Positive Security, created a way to send a limited amount of arbitrary data to Apple's iCloud servers from devices without an internet connection.