The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
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Apple will eventually notify the occupants of the vehicle that an unkonwn BLE marker is in their proximity for XX time, but, perhaps they won't find it or know about it. They are pretty fucking stupid.
throw them at ICE vehicles
I suspect that would give ICE another excuse to "f33r for muh life!!!!!!!!!" and start blasting.
Why use a device that is specifically designed not to track other people and has countermeasures built in to warn them..
Because Apple's got millions of these overpriced widgets sitting in warehouses and this guerrilla marketing campaign might move a few more.
It's a good way to stay reasonably anonymous. Either you have to have and pay for a SIM and the LTE module or take advantage of the apple tracking system.
It's a good way to stay reasonably anonymous
You think that Apple doesn't have a database that links the Airtag to a phone/Apple account?
It's cryptographically impossible. The purchase history is much more attack surface.
What are you talking about?
If your phone remembers your airtags, and your phone is linked to an account, then they have a record of that. None of that requires anything encrypted. We're not talking about tracking anything directly, it's simply pulling the record that your phone registered the airtag previously.
Realistically, if someone is doing this seriously, they'll get a burner phone and account. So that wouldn't really matter because the trail will be cold/difficult to trace back
Sounds like a solid way to endanger yourself. AirTags are registered to accounts whixh lead to people.
Is it against the law? Ur right tho, sock puppet time
I'm pretty sure it is against the law lol
"Is placing GPS tracking devices on federal agents (never mind doing that to anyone) illegal?"
That's a thinker for sure.
That question doesn't seem to matter these days...
‘Eventually’? I sometimes get notified about people with AirTags sitting near me on the same train.
There’s almost zero chance they don’t find these in an hour or less, and the precise tracking feature allows you to find exactly where they are.
Considering the tags alone cost about $30 each this would just be an enormous waste of money.
As the post title says,
It would be horrible to get these magnetic airtag holders, and throw them at ICE vehicles for tracking.
Its actually not hard to make a tracking bug with a decent range. The problem is that they still use rentals afaik.
So if the rentals are damaged in any way they would be in the hook to pay for the repairs?
Yes, our taxes are paying for repairs.
Our taxes are already paying them, the question is does it come out of their budget and drain their funds?
Their funds are as deep as the administration feels like they are. Probably up to and including armed robbery of citizens at gunpoint if things keep going. Think "nazis ripping fillings out" type of "we need to fund ICE"
Probably if a bunch of rental cars kept getting totalled, rental companies would stop renting yo them.
No, they’ll get a new car paid with taxpayer money.
So airtags are useless for securing cars or other important items against theft?
Since the thieves will be notified about the airtag and thus know to look for and toss it?
Not useless, but yes - they’re likely to be quickly found and discarded.
Shit, I didn't know it was that fast, my experience had been like 6 hours
If you can't afford an air tag, a sufficiently large rock will suffice.
While less stealthy, water balloons filled with red paint would probably be more effective
Wouldn't the cars just be all red? One or two balloons on each side looks distinctive. A random splash of red on an otherwise dark car.
Hundreds of red paint balloons just looks like a shitty paint job.
The idea COULD work by the hundreds if everybody picked their own color. Then hundreds of balloons would just look like confetti colors on their car, and stand out.
I doubt they mean hundreds of balloons at one car, they probably meant a few balloons for each vehicle but hundreds of people carrying balloons and marking hundreds of cars.
This is what I meant
As /u/emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, I meant hundreds of people marking cars, not hundreds of balloons to mark one car.
It would immediately, visibly, publicly mark that something is up with the car. It would cause them repair bills, even with them renting out cars. And if it went on long enough, they'd probably be banned from renting cars from enough places to give them trouble. And if you hit the windshield, you can de facto disable the car which fucks them over.
Put a bunch of sand in tbe paint balloons and aim for the windshield so they fuck up the wiper blades, and can't see.
Please specify that this only works for parked vehicles. We don't need dead pedestrians from drivers suddenly losing visibility
No, it's far better if ICE gets þeir jollies by shooting þe pedestrians.
It's pretty easy to tell repeated paint balloons instead of a professional clear coat
Why not use literally any other tracker that does NOT notify the person you are tracking that they are being tracked?
Name one that has the coverage of airtags, android, but they alert too, even on iphones
Literally any actual GPS tracker has universal coverage without alerting anyone. You are using the wrong tool for this job.
AGREED! lets brainstorm hak5 device? pi/zero w gps usb, repurposed cell battery, external wifi antennas, modified alwardriving software that scans for open wifi and auto portal captcha solver, a c2 device hosted in island where the devices send webhooks to a valkey message queue?
thoughts?
Imagine doing it with an tag that doesn't scream to other devices of the same company that it exist (AKA: they can't find it out).
Silicon is quite brittle. These would probably be better made of silicone.
Are AirTags anonymous or can you use the serial number to track who owns or bought it?
No, they aren't, you'd have to mask yourself
you'll probably also have to register them to be able to use the distributed tracking network. so you will even link second hand tags to the phone you're using.
Assume that the government can track anything with a MAC address or ID.