Apple’s Search network is a network of completely anonymous communications to be able to locate any compatible object around the world, but logically the curiosity of some experts means that there are unexpected applications for the protocol.
It is what has achieved Fabian Bräunlein, a security expert who has achieved use network communications Search to send data. Not locations, but data in the form of random text messages.
It can be used, but in very few cases and it is extremely difficult
The key to the procedure has been to be able to replace the encrypted sending of the location of an AirTag by a character string. The hack In itself it is not dangerous and has been made out of pure curiosity, but Apple engineers may be interested in preventing other experts from using it for fraudulent purposes.
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These would be very remote cases, but Fabian cautions that this type of message sending could be used to get certain information from devices that do not have an internet connection precisely for security reasons (like computers in Faraday cages, for example). Still, it would be very difficult and quite a feat to achieve. You better stick to the appropriate uses.
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