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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by overflow64@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

It's not open source if that's what you mean. If you think that stops people looking at code then I'll have some of what you're smoking please.

If you're genuinely interested in how the Find My system works Here's a good paper on it. The papers publishers even have an open source tool to connect to Apples Find My network which is neat.