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#AirGuard

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Keshara

I've been using AirTags hidden on some of my items that would be typical thief targets. Today I learnt about the AirGuard Android application which you can find on F-Droid. I had no idea that anyone would be able to just play an alert and reveal the location of the AirTag that was hidden. Any other cost effective solutions that can replace these?

A screenshot of the AirGuard Android application showing 3 AirTags being picked up from a scan
#airtag#android#airguard
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Michael Burch :kt_ow:

Neuer Artikel auf iPhone-Blog.ch veröffentlicht:
Nach wie vor warnt die App «AirGuard» zuverlässig vor fremden Trackern

Tracker wie SmartTags, Tile-Tracker, Eufy- und Chipolo-Tracker, können einer Person mit in die Tasche gepackt werden. Der Besitzer des Trackers kann dann den Standort des Gegenstandes bzw. den Ort der Person sehen. Macht dies jemand mit einem AirTag, so warnt dieser…

Artikel lesen: iphone-blog.ch/2025/01/02/nach

#AirGuard#AirTag#Chipolo
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Apfel

The application #AirGuard is supposed to seek out physical tracking tokens. Unfortunately, its privacy policy is deceitful:
'... we have used the Minimal Data Usage principle and the Offline First principle.'
Not at all. It requires lots of permissions: the exact location during background runs, network access, etc.

Then they lied about its compulsiveness:
'The app accesses your location data (if consent is given) ...'
It violates the #GDPR.

tpe.seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de/privacy-policy.html

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katzenberger

Beihilfe zum #Stalking jetzt auch für #Android: #FindMyEx (pardon, "Find my device") kommt, zunächst in den #USA.

»Mit einem neuen Crowdsourcing-Netzwerk von über einer Milliarde Android-Geräten kann Find My Device Ihnen helfen, Ihre verlegten Android-Geräte und Alltagsgegenstände schnell und sicher zu finden«

heise.de/news/Google-fuehrt-Fi

Empfehlung: #AirGuard

f-droid.org/en/packages/de.see

heise online · Google führt "Find My Device"-Netzwerk für Android einBy Andreas Knobloch
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nemo™ 🇺🇦

The #AirGuard app available on #fdroid is designed to protect #Android users from #tracking devices like #AirTags It allows users to detect AirTags by periodically scanning their surroundings using Bluetooth on their Android phones. The app saves detected trackers locally on the device and alerts the user if a tracker is detected multiple times, enabling them to play a sound to locate it. (1/3)

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Nikhil 🐧

Yesterday morning I installed the #airguard android app, because why not? 😁

What it does: it scans for Bluetooth trackers (like apple's airtags). If the scan returns an unknown Bluetooth device again and again, while you are on the move, it means that it could be a tracker.

However, when I was travelling by train in the afternoon I got false-positive warnings since people on the train had trackers and the train was moving 😂

Still good to know that it works and would catch these trackers! 😎👌🏾

Fdroid page of Airguard, an app that can detect Bluetooth tracking devices
A notification by Airguard warning about a tracker
Airguard also has a map to show where it detected a possible tracker. This screenshot however shows how it detected the tracker along the train's route 😄
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dreamchipper

#AirGuard #android #iOS
App warnt vor fremden Trackern und schützt Privatsphäre vor #Airtags etc.
Entwickelt von TU Darmstadt
Kostenlos zu haben!

iphone-ticker.de/airguard-fors

datenschutz-notizen.de/airguar

iPhone-Ticker.de · AirGuard: Forscher der TU Darmstadt entwickeln AirTags-Schutz-AppIm Secure Mobile Networking Lab der TU Darmstadt setzen sich die drei Wissenschaftler Alexander Heinrich, Niklas Bittner und Matthias Hollick schon seit längerem mit der von Apple angebotenen AirTags-Sachenfindern auseinander. Inzwischen bieten die Security-Experten nicht nur die Android-Applikation AirGuard an, die Nutzer des Google-Betriebssystems vor Stalking-Versuchen mit Apples Tracking-Talern schützen soll, die Forscher haben auch […]
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