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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — mentioned by 0x10c0fe11ce</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127433</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2103.02282:27127433</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 06:46:31 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your link, but I will start here -&amp;gt; https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02282&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — mentioned by dividuum</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882182</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2103.02282:26882182</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:43:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s a detailed protocol reverse engineering paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02282.pdf My guess would be that you, as the tag owner, locally store the master beacon key and can use it to derive key required to decrypt received beacon payloads for your own tags. You can then filter out your own and approximate how many others (which you cannot link over time) you permanently see. If it is more than one most of the time, you’re probably tagged without your consent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — mentioned by lights0123</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26880999</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2103.02282:26880999</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:18:23 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02282.pdf, see 6.1: &amp;quot;The BLE advertisements sent out by a lost device contain an EC public key pi. A finder device that receives such an advertisement determinesits current location and encrypts the location with pi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26861640</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26861640</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:44:36 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Apple “Find My” used to track offline devices&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26737515</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26737515</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:33:01 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Security and Privacy of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506233</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26506233</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:59:19 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Who Can Find My Devices? Apple Crowd-Sourced Location Tracking: Security,Privacy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26477885</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26477885</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:17:53 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Security and Privacy of Apple&amp;#x27;s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466817</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26466817</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:01:58 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Security and Privacy of Apple&amp;#x27;s Crowd-Sourced Location Tracking System&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343683</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2103.02282:26343683</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:34:04 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple&amp;#x27;s Bluetooth Tracking&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2103.02282/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item></channel></rss>
