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  • Police use phone to track iPad catching Bloomberg's housekeeper's kidna

    From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 7 05:14:38 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    Police use phone to track iPad catching Bloomberg's housekeeper's kidnapper <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/bloomberg-housekeeper-kidnapped-colorado.html>

    "The two were found after investigators said they used an app
    on the woman's phone (which was left behind at the ranch)
    to track her iPad to the Wyoming motel."

    Anyone know what app that might have been & how they did that?

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to spam@nospam.com on Mon Feb 7 08:51:43 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    In article <stq9ru$1chn$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Andy Burnelli
    <spam@nospam.com> wrote:

    Police use phone to track iPad catching Bloomberg's housekeeper's kidnapper

    <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/bloomberg-housekeeper-kidnapped-colorad
    o.html>

    "The two were found after investigators said they used an app
    on the woman's phone (which was left behind at the ranch)
    to track her iPad to the Wyoming motel."

    Anyone know what app that might have been & how they did that?

    you claim to know all about ios yet you don't understand the basics.

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to nospam on Mon Feb 7 19:04:13 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:51:43 -0500, nospam wrote:

    Anyone know what app that might have been & how they did that?

    you claim to know all about ios yet you don't understand the basics.

    Tell us the answer, nospam.

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  • From Bob Campbell@21:1/5 to Andy Burnelli on Wed Feb 9 17:03:55 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:51:43 -0500, nospam wrote:

    Anyone know what app that might have been & how they did that?

    you claim to know all about ios yet you don't understand the basics.

    Tell us the answer, nospam.

    Nospam is - once again - correct. You are totally clueless about
    iAnything.

    This tracking in iOS is a very basic feature. The app is included on
    every iOS device on the planet. It allows one to track all of YOUR OWN devices, and any that people WILLINGLY share with you. For example, your
    kids phones, etc.

    I suppose you will spin this as some horrible, dystopian “Apple tracks your every movement” thing, but it is ONLY for your own stuff, in case you lose
    an iPhone/iPad/iWhatever, you can see approximately where it is. It uses your iCloud account, and everything that is logged in with that account.
    So when you sell/give away your iPhone, you sign out of iCloud, do a full
    reset and now you can longer track that device. And the new owner cannot
    track you, unless you WILLINGLY permit them to do so.

    Simple. Safe. And very handy in lots of situations. The story you quote
    is a typical good use of this.

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to Bob Campbell on Thu Feb 10 00:18:30 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:03:55 -0600, Bob Campbell wrote:

    It uses
    your iCloud account, and everything that is logged in with that account.

    Read it and weep. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2021/05/07/florida-man-tried-track-his-robbery-victim-by-attaching-an-iphone-his-car-police-say/>

    Besides, Apple find-my code is so crappy, it's not even hard to disable. <https://www.imore.com/iphone-thieves-are-using-trick-disable-find-my-stolen-devices>

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