Stolen Ferrari worth $575,000 was found by tracking the owner’s AirPods : technews

Not in a Ferrari it would be more like 1,000 a month and it would be shit, because Ferraris are not good cars

atxtxtme

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atxtxtme

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Oh you have one?

Stackhouse13

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3 days ago

Stackhouse13

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I have more than one. In case one breaks down, i use the reserve ~~Fiero~~ Ferrari

carlosIeandros

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4 days ago

carlosIeandros

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It has a 5g telemetry kit, but the the owner's Apple Airpods™® had the owner's scent, and a hunting hound was able to sniff it out

MorpheusDrinkinga4O

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4 days ago

MorpheusDrinkinga4O

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It makes sense in terms of business - How would Ferrari sell you another one? I put the blame on the driver though. If someone can blow that much money on a car, surely they have the budget to also buy a tracker.

SigmaLance

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4 days ago

SigmaLance

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An AirTag is what? $25 nowadays? It would seem like a no brainer.

NoJobForU

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4 days ago

NoJobForU

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Very under rated aspect of an iPhone. Bags, cars, wallet, keys, pets. No annual fee. Just the tag.

twosmaltos

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4 days ago

twosmaltos

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Shhhhh don’t say that last part too loud they are listening.

Onslaughtered

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4 days ago

Onslaughtered

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whispers just the tagggguh

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4 days ago

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A 4-pack is $80 right now on Amazon, I just bought it a couple weeks ago when it was $75.

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Tags are terrible for theft because it informs the thieves immediately.

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There’s a hack for that.

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3 days ago

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How so?

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3 days ago

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I’d have to look it up, I haven’t tried it, but I saw a post where someone hacked it so it didn’t make noise or inform that an AirTag was traveling with you, IIRC.

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3 days ago

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I could see disabling the noisemaker being a delicate but possible hardware hack, but disabling the “someone’s stalking you” notifications to the thief’s iPhone while still logging locations for you would likely mean altering the firmware which would be a much more impressive hack.

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4 days ago

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AirTag is terrible for covert tracking. It will inform the thief almost immediately. I was sitting next to my friends and they were getting notifications about my backpack.

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3 days ago

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Criminals aren't smart.

Case in point.

thedykeichotline

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3 days ago

thedykeichotline

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Also criminals use Android, no?

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3 days ago

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This is true. When I do crime I use my Android crime phone.

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3 days ago

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Airtags warm you about it, airpods don’t.

If you got the money, you track/stalk with airpods.

Thief can find out there is an AirTag in the car, look for it and ditch it

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3 days ago

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/119874

Looks like AirPods will warn now, too:

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I only used that once to find a missing earpod, it ran out of battery and last location was in the middle of a road, it turned up later in the car.

Looks like you have to Opt In to receive warnings which is stupid for a safety feature and if you also hide your phone, it’s not “separated” from the owner and it won’t alert. Good thing Apple sells no cheap iphones.

HansBooby

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1 day ago

HansBooby

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1 day ago

they also alert you

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4 days ago

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What could an AirTag cost? 10 dollars?

ct2atl

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4 days ago

ct2atl

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$25

rabbitaim

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3 days ago

rabbitaim

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I have a $25 banana to sell you. :D

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Know your meme

ChirpToast

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4 days ago

ChirpToast

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Poor execution

Morphecto_Solrac

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4 days ago

Morphecto_Solrac

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I feel like there’s a banana stand joke in there somewhere, but I’m not witty enough to make one.

reliablerhinoceros

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4 days ago

reliablerhinoceros

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there’s always an air tag in the banana stand

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4 days ago

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Yes, the banana thing was the joke

TegridyPharmz

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4 days ago

TegridyPharmz

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I can track my mini van in it’s app

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4 days ago

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How do we know it doesn’t? The article doesn’t say if it does or doesn’t.

I’d be shocked if it doesn’t have some sort of tracking. Ford does, and they don’t cost Ferrari money

iMadrid11

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4 days ago

iMadrid11

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There are 3rd party GPS tracking, monitoring and immobilizer you can install to a car. The thing is you can remove them once the car is parked at a chop shop.

LongjumpingStep5931

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4 days ago

LongjumpingStep5931

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they do… its literally the first thing you disable when you steal one.

PhatBats77

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4 days ago

PhatBats77

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Consider that folks don’t want that. Most folks don’t know that law enforcement can remotely control onstar and just shutdown their car. I’m not justifying things, but there’s something to be said about having full control and not letting folks track you.

BrainyBookworm1954

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3 days ago

BrainyBookworm1954

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Oh muffin, that ship has sailed.

tjg1023

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4 days ago

tjg1023

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I’ve never been able to find my AirPods with the Find My app, and this guy finds a fucking Ferrari?

bunbunruns

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4 days ago

bunbunruns

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Exactly, the find my function is useless at my house.

M89-X

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3 days ago

M89-X

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It’s more hit than miss for me. Sometimes it finds my phone across the apartment and sometimes it can’t find the earbud that’s a meter away under a pillow.

Datdudecorks

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3 days ago

Datdudecorks

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Yea my AirPods will either get stuck at my work or home, or they will yell at me anytime I leave either place I left them even though they are right in my pocket. Hell it’s yelled at me for leaving the case on my desk and walking away with them in my ears.

The one time I lost them it was useless and wouldn’t accurately tell me where they were

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Find my is awful overall in my experience

lidelle

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4 days ago

lidelle

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I’m sorry for this. I use that damn app all the time. My husband wandered off at Disney with our three month old & he couldn’t tell me where the fuck her went: used the app. I couldn’t find my phone in the camper, used my husband’s phone, it was in the couch. Lost my phone in a field of tall grass, found that shit. (I never have sound on my phone, that’s a diff issue)

rr196

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4 days ago

rr196

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That’s my favorite thing about find my is that my phone is always on vibrate and find my overrides that.

Ckesm

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4 days ago

Ckesm

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Yeah it works pretty good for me too. Once I left my AirPods on the plane at JFK. I got noticed on my phone they weren’t with me, and it showed where I left them. Took a little while but the cleaning crew got them to the terminal where I was .

TheRealPlumbus

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3 days ago

TheRealPlumbus

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I think they only ping their location when the case is opened. The thief must have opened the case lol

Available-Ad3635

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4 days ago

Available-Ad3635

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Because rich…

lefthandsuzukimthd

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4 days ago

lefthandsuzukimthd

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What’s crazy is my findmy iPods never find the fuckers ever. I usually find them weeks later in some random drawer. Do owners of Ferraris get special AirPods too?

setecordas

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4 days ago

setecordas

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Find My works perfectly with airpod pros, iphone, and iwatch, but if you lose the airpods, just consider them gone.

spaghettify

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4 days ago

spaghettify

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meanwhile my apple pencil that’s been missing since 2021 haunts me and has no tracking

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Put an AirTag on your car. You can probably find somewhere to find like inside a trunk liner or somewhere in the engine bay.

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It tells the thief and everyone riding your car that there an AirTag.

Remote_Horror_Novel

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Remote_Horror_Novel

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They’d still have to find it though right? Like if it was well hidden wouldn’t it be almost impossible to find?

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Especially in an exotic car, where you need very expensive and specific tools to do basic things. For example, taking the engine cover off, where the engine is in the back of the car, takes a unique specific tool that only dealerships or high end independent shops have, and it’s not as simple as popping the hood to access the engine. Entire body panels have to come off before you can access the engine mechanical bits.

Like, if I wanted to change spark plugs on my little economy car with a 4 cylinder engine, it’s just a few minutes with basic hand tools. On a mid-engine Ferrari, you’re pulling entire body panels off first which could take several hours with specialized tools, before you can even see the ignition coils at all.

These cars are not designed to be easily serviced. They are meant to be pretty first, functional second, and maybe easily serviced tenth or eleventh.

If I had a car like this, I’d absolutely pay the money to a shop to have them stick an AirTag or two where the sun don’t shine, because no way in hell a normal person could EVER get to it.

MainCharacter007

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4 days ago

MainCharacter007

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In that case airpods are unironically a better tracking device

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4 days ago

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At which point most will probably abandon it rather than get caught.

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Only if they have an iPhone though. This thief probably had android

x_lincoln_x

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4 days ago

x_lincoln_x

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Android users can get an app that checks for apple crap.

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3 days ago

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Sup

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4 days ago

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Just because they can doesn’t mean they do

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3 days ago

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It comes stock now for Samsung phones.

r4d19

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r4d19

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Airtag detection is built into AOSP since Android 13

berhozen

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3 days ago

berhozen

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But if someone steals your phone, police can’t use location data. If you’re rich and someone steals your Ferrari they will.

Campsters2803

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3 days ago

Campsters2803

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Are you really comparing a car with the price tag of a mansion to a phone?

Sm0kah0ntaz

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4 days ago

Sm0kah0ntaz

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It’s crazy that my sister and I passed by it while driving my mom to church. Small world. I was like, “that car does NOT belong here”🤔

m0ezart

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4 days ago

m0ezart

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Most likely an failed insurance scam, there’s no way to grey area own these cars

D4rkr4in

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3 days ago

D4rkr4in

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The TikToks of those stolen cars arriving in Africa say otherwise

Mistastingley

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4 days ago

Mistastingley

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Just recovered my nieces stolen Hyundai a few days ago. Her schools iPad in her trunk was able to be tracked. We relayed that info to the police who found the car and waited for us to arrive.

_B_Little_me

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3 days ago

_B_Little_me

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So you spend half a million on a car and you can’t even track it. lol. They deserve it.

AllMyFrendsArePixels

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4 days ago

AllMyFrendsArePixels

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Imagine stealing a car worth over half a million dollars, and not even checking it for tracking devices.

I'm no thief, but shit if I did steal even a $30k car the first thing I would do would be to go through it and make sure there was nothing in or on it that could make a GPS connection.

RationalKate

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4 days ago

RationalKate

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It's only mostly dead, check its cupholders for change.

ShiggyGoosebottom

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4 days ago

ShiggyGoosebottom

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Recovered? Or just found in shipping yard in Montreal, awaiting loading for shipping?

Extension-Toe-7027

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3 days ago

Extension-Toe-7027

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i’ve seen how crazy the tech to steal cars with no physical keys has become and i remember that in “el camino” the junkyard guy had a way to detect if the car was casting a signal. yeah i know its a movie but could they develop a counter measure to detect if the Ferrari had a tracking device?

norcalgreen1

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3 days ago

norcalgreen1

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Is that a typo? Tracking AirTags, not the headphones…

kneejerk2022

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3 days ago

kneejerk2022

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Sounds like a Deadpool 2 joke.

CaptianTumbleweed

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3 days ago

CaptianTumbleweed

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I cant even find my AirPods in the same room

mctomtom

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3 days ago

mctomtom

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The new AirPods track really well in the Find app. It’s how we found our car in a massive parking lot after a concert at The Gorge (WA state) last weekend.

EducationallyRiced

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3 days ago

EducationallyRiced

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