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Very disappointing. Does Apple sell Air Tag data to 3rd parties?
Apple cannot sell your AirTag data, because they don’t know it. It’s all encrypted.
They say the same thing about some of the other data that they encrypt, but then they store the encryption private keys on their servers.
Encryption doesn't mean they can't see the data. It means only the people with the private keys (and those who can crack the private keys or a device with the private keys) can see the data.
One must know if the data is encrypted both at rest and in transit. What type of encryption is used. Where the private key is stored. And what are the protections in-place where the key is stored
With proprietary software you have no way of knowing. Also avoid SaSS (service as a software substitute)
They do outline all of that, explaining how it works. The private key pair and secret are never sent to Apple. And yes, it’s end-to-end encrypted of course.
https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
Page 202 of you care to learn how it works.
Is the source code public so we can verify the implementation matches the spec?
It's not open source if that's what you mean. If you think that stops people looking at code then I'll have some of what you're smoking please.
If you're genuinely interested in how the Find My system works Here's a good paper on it. The papers publishers even have an open source tool to connect to Apples Find My network which is neat.
Sure, it's encrypted, but there might be a way for them to decrypt it.
It lives in the same place as your other inaccessible data, which Apple has been unable to produce when served with warrants for iCloud data and the like.
You read the leaflet. Nice.
Not relevant. I was just trying to say that you have to be very gullible to take a company's word at face value.