The AirTag is a monitoring system developed by Apple, announced on April 20, 2021 during the "Spring Loaded" event.Airtags are accessories to attach to backpacks, luggage and other items.Combining a visual, haptic and audio return, AirTags aim to simplify the follow -up of your belongings that matter to you."We are delighted to offer this incredible new capacity to iPhone users with the launch of Airtag, which takes advantage of the vast Find My network, to help them follow and find important objects of their lives," saidKaiann Drance, vice-president of the world marketing of iPhone products at Apple during the launch of the device."With its design, its unrivaled research experience and its integrated confidentiality and security functions, Airtag will offer customers another way to take advantage of the power of the Apple ecosystem and improve the versatility of the iPhone".The price of an Airtag is $ 29, and a pack of four AirTags can be purchased for 99 dollars.Apple AirTags use Ultra-Large Strip (ULB)) technology and take advantage of the existing network of the company's devices, which work as collective beacons to contact each other to determine the location of your objectfaded away."Airtag is a very easy way to keep track of your belongings.Attach one to your keys, slide another in your backpack, ”explains Apple.The tool was quick to show its usefulness.In August, Dan Guido, founder of the Cybersecurity Company Trail of Bits, announced in a series of tweets that he was able to find his stolen electric scooter thanks to two AirTags hidden in the corners of the machine.The first Airtag was placed as a lure and the second was well hidden."My scooter was stolen last week.Unbeknownst to the thief, I had hidden two Airtags there.I was able to use Apple's Find My network and UWB radiogoniometry to find the scooter today, "he wrote.Guido explained that he went to a restaurant and left the scooter tied outside with handcuffs, which according to him are easier to use than a padlock, but he apparently forgot to handle a.When he left the restaurant, he noticed that she was no longer there.But Guido said he didn't worry because he had made arrangements to locate his scooter at any time.L'AirTag d'Apple a permis de découvrir une agence de renseignement allemande secrèteUne chercheuse a envoyé l'un des AirTags d'Apple à une mystérieuse « autorité fédérale » en Allemagne pour localiser ses véritables bureaux - et pour aider à prouver qu'elle fait vraiment partie d'une agence de renseignement.Apple AirTags have already been used for better and for the worst in cases involving the follow -up of individuals, but now a German researcher has used one in a revelation of government secrets.Activist Lilith Wittmann says that she discovered how the little -known Federal Telecommunications Service is in fact a "camouflage authority" for a secret intelligence agency.At the start, she wrote how she "came across a federal authority that does not exist".Subsequently, Wittmann detailed his subsequent and extremely in -depth attempts to prove his suspicions.She methodically traveled each step to learn what she could from the intelligence agency, including where she is.Some of the steps it details can no longer be reproduced, such as its first consisting of consulting a list of online federal authorities.Similarly, Wittmann includes transcriptions of telephone calls with an official whose laptop number which she reports then ceased to operate.Thanks to calls like this, IP research and even trips to official buildings, Wittmann has worked to find the mysterious BundeSservice Telekommunikation, or Federal Telecommunications Service.It establishes several reasons to believe that it is part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI)) and finally concludes that there are in fact two "camouflage" authorities.Both would be a secret part of an intelligence agency named the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.L'utilisation du AirTagWittmann dit que tous ceux à qui elle a parlé ont nié faire partie de cette agence de renseignement.However, if it could prove that the postal address of this "federal authority" effectively leads to the apparent offices of the intelligence service, it would be a good indicator of their affiliations to the agency, according to her."To understand where the mail ends," she writes, "[you can do] a lot of manual research.Or you can simply send a small device that regularly transmits its current position (a so-called Airtag)) and look where it lands ”.She sent a package with an Airtag and looked via the Find My system of Apple while it was delivered via the Berlin sorting center to a sorting office in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.And then appears to the Office for the protection of the Constitution in Cologne.Thus, an AIRTAG addressed to a telecommunications authority based in part of Germany is found in the offices of an intelligence agency based in another part of the country.Wittmann's search is also now detailed in the German Wikipedia entrance for the Federal Telecommunications Service.She tells how, after her initial discovery in December 2021, subsequent government press conferences denied the existence of such a federal telecommunications service: “The Federal Telecommunications Service (BST - BundeSservice Telekommunikation)) is a federal authority under the federal authorityPortfolio of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Fatherland.Nothing is known to the public on the activities of the authority based in Berlin.According to his own statements, as a federal service provider, he performs tasks for federal ministries and subordinate institutions.This includes specialized, transversal and supporting tasks as well as aid for modernization in the field of information and communication technologies (...)).“In December 2021, security researcher Lilith Wittmann discovered the federal service by doing research.To date, she personally ignored the existence of authority.The Federal Telecommunications Service had neither functional email address nor official teacher and, according to Wittmann, was not reachable by phone during normal office hours.After Wittmann sent a request to the Federal Administration Office as part of the Law on Freedom of Information via the Ask The State platform, the Federal Telecommunications Service was deleted from the service page'Federal Office of Administration. L'autorité est toujours répertoriée dans le répertoire d'adresses fédéral, qui a été mis à jour pour la dernière fois le 1^er mars 2021.Information on the Federal Telecommunications Service is also available on other official websites of the Federal Republic of Germany.Wittmann suspects that this is an organization of coverage of a secret service which is the responsibility of the Federal Interior Ministry.“The authority has a functional email address since January 2022, and there are also photos of the bells of the authority of December 2021."A spokesperson for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said on January 17, 2022 that there was no authority bearing this name in the BMI portfolio."During another press conference on January 24, 2022, it was also confirmed" that there is no federal telecommunications service in the portfolio of the federal government ".On the other hand, no information was given on the question of whether it was "an institution within the meaning of the federal law on constitutional protection" ".In her latest article detailing her research, the activist Wittmann says that she continues in a third to come from her series.In the meantime, she writes that the intelligence service can keep the airtag."I heard that they are supposed to be very expensive," she concludes. Bundesservice Telekommunikation (Wikipedia version allemande))Source : billet de blog Wittman Et vous ? Quelle lecture en faites-vous ?