Wouldn’t airtags be fallible against thieves? Like the thief could cut the collar and toss it away? Does seem very useful in a lost dog accident scenario though.
Ultimately any anti-theft device is fallible, the point of them is to create deterrence by increasing the hassle and effort/time involved in stealing whatever it is successfully
Which will deter crimes of opportunity and make more professional/targeted thieves consider easier targets
For example with bike locks even super high end ones can eventually be cut with an angle grinder, but that takes time and draws lots of attention, so why not go for a bike with a lock that can be shimmied or has none at all
In the case of an AirTag or another similarish RFID/GPS/wideband/lojack tracker type devices you’d need a Faraday cage large enough to hold the thing, which in the case of say a small electronic device like a phone may not be very hard for an fairly dedicated and decently equipped thief, but to steal a dog I assume you’d need a van with the back compartment Faraday’d and/or a Kennel with the same(I don’t actually know how pet implants work so this is just my educated guesses to illustrate my point)
I don’t personally own any airtags, or airtag collars so I couldn’t really tell you. I’m don’t really think pet thieves are particularly common though, and pets usually have tracker implants as well.
pets don’t have tracker implants to be clear, they have RFID implants that basically serve as implantable collars with owner info and some sort of id tied to vet records afaik. Not long enough range to be any good for tracking, significantly less than even bluetooth, same tech as cards/fobs that you tap to unlock doors
Wouldn’t airtags be fallible against thieves? Like the thief could cut the collar and toss it away? Does seem very useful in a lost dog accident scenario though.
Ultimately any anti-theft device is fallible, the point of them is to create deterrence by increasing the hassle and effort/time involved in stealing whatever it is successfully
Which will deter crimes of opportunity and make more professional/targeted thieves consider easier targets
For example with bike locks even super high end ones can eventually be cut with an angle grinder, but that takes time and draws lots of attention, so why not go for a bike with a lock that can be shimmied or has none at all
In the case of an AirTag or another similarish RFID/GPS/wideband/lojack tracker type devices you’d need a Faraday cage large enough to hold the thing, which in the case of say a small electronic device like a phone may not be very hard for an fairly dedicated and decently equipped thief, but to steal a dog I assume you’d need a van with the back compartment Faraday’d and/or a Kennel with the same(I don’t actually know how pet implants work so this is just my educated guesses to illustrate my point)
I don’t personally own any airtags, or airtag collars so I couldn’t really tell you. I’m don’t really think pet thieves are particularly common though, and pets usually have tracker implants as well.
pets don’t have tracker implants to be clear, they have RFID implants that basically serve as implantable collars with owner info and some sort of id tied to vet records afaik. Not long enough range to be any good for tracking, significantly less than even bluetooth, same tech as cards/fobs that you tap to unlock doors