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bdcravens on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How does Apple privately find offline devices?

The potential of low cost tags is in the first paragraph, and an overview of how the system would work is in the second. My takeaway is that you will be able to use something far cheaper than an iPhone.

dmitrygr on June 5, 2019 [–]

Cheap ble tags do NOT use fancy rotated private keys or anything of the like. At best they use BLE privacy mode. That is as private as the spec gets.

Source: worked on Bluetooth for years

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