Car-stealing scrotes' latest trick

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GPS trackers have been around for yonks. Apple have just jumped on the bandwagon and now it’s a news story. If they really want to track your car there’s less detectable devices out there, we’ve got them on bits of plant.
 
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I hope your not scaremongering Adam as we don't won't this to go the way of other threads like Brexit etc ;)
 
Felonious Crud

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philw696 said:
I hope your not scaremongering Adam as we don't won't this to go the way of other threads like Brexit etc ;)
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In that case, everyone's cars are tagged already and will be gone by Christmas to be driven by people in foreign countries. In return, we'll all get a Chinese respiratory disease and the economy will crash. If it doesn't then it will soon and it's all a scam and none of it is true and the earth is a science experiment controlled by two mice (Benjy and Franky).
 
gb-gta

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Benjy any Franky?
Don’t they run that American diner place, they are doing well to control the world. Fair play to them.
 
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Oneball said:
GPS trackers have been around for yonks. Apple have just jumped on the bandwagon and now it’s a news story. If they really want to track your car there’s less detectable devices out there, we’ve got them on bits of plant.
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Indeed. I've had a NotAirTag(tm) on some of my luggage for years. Tile.

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Oneball said:
GPS trackers have been around for yonks. Apple have just jumped on the bandwagon and now it’s a news story. If they really want to track your car there’s less detectable devices out there, we’ve got them on bits of plant.
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Apple air tag isnt GPS as such. Its bluetooth short range from your own phone but uses any nearby apple phones as a network to upload the tag location to ICloud. Nothing is stored on the tag. So even if it is found on a car its going to be difficult to trace the culprits that were planning on robbing the car.
 
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spkennyuk said:
Apple air tag isnt GPS as such. Its bluetooth short range from your own phone but uses any nearby apple phones as a network to upload the tag location to ICloud. Nothing is stored on the tag. So even if it is found on a car its going to be difficult to trace the culprits that were planning on robbing the car.
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Whether it uses GPS or Apples’ own “network of phones” doesn’t really make a difference, what I was getting at was this isn’t new. For some time I’ve been able to buy a bit of kit for £50 that’d allow me to track your car that’s pretty much undetectable to the cars owner (unlike an airtag) and would be very difficult to find the culprits too.
 
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Felonious Crud said:
In that case, everyone's cars are tagged already and will be gone by Christmas to be driven by people in foreign countries. In return, we'll all get a Chinese respiratory disease and the economy will crash. If it doesn't then it will soon and it's all a scam and none of it is true and the earth is a science experiment controlled by two mice (Benjy and Franky).
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Don't forget. We have all been chipped 2 or 3 times now in the last year so no need to tag our cars. Just scan us whilst we stand like sheep in the Starbucks queue and away we go.
 
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Gazcw said:
Won't be long before that is over here then, if not already. Go to a car show, select your favourites and away you go.
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Well, the car thief still has to go and steal the car from whatever location they have tracked it to.

But I suppose it means that if you have a very desirable car (or have a stalker), you now need to get an App that looks out for dodgy Bluetooth devices around you - it's a simple application really - one that lists any BT device that seems not to be moving relative to your own phone for a while.
 
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MarkMas said:
Well, the car thief still has to go and steal the car from whatever location they have tracked it to.

But I suppose it means that if you have a very desirable car (or have a stalker), you now need to get an App that looks out for dodgy Bluetooth devices around you - it's a simple application really - one that lists any BT device that seems not to be moving relative to your own phone for a while.
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I read that ios notifies you if it picks up a tracking device that is not linked to the phone.
 
gb-gta

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I think we’re safe. Who steals maseratis anyway?
The scrotes have no interest in them at all, they are just after sporty VAG/BMW/Merc/Ford stuff, plus landrover/range rovers. In fact you’re more likely to have a standard fiesta nicked than a quattroporte/granturismo.
Hope I don’t live to regret that statement……but im pretty sure that stats back it up.
 
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