Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Cops Use 'Find My iPhone' App, Search Wrong House, Hit w/$3.8M Verdict" video.

  1. The devices that can tell their position with pinpoint accuracy by GPS are doing so by fixing their position, i.e. their receiver antenna is mounted on a temperature controlled concrete block with an open view to the sky. They're used to measure the performance of GPS itself and derive correction signals for D-GPS. It's not what you find in a phone.
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  2. The Find My network does not report where the separated tag is - rather it reports where some other device (phone, tablet or computer) was when it heard it. And even then with an accuracy rarely better than 10m.
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  3. It wasn't the tag's location at all. It was the location of some other device that heard the tag. It would be fairly simple to repeat the tag's signal to make it show up in lots of places it isn't.
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  4.  @jodyhoo  The tag doesn't even receive. It just shouts "This is me! I'm lost!" (after 15 minutes or so) and a "finder" reports having heard it. The location is from the finder; "someone thought they were there when they heard a shout with this ID". The report does include an accuracy field, but it's an estimate of how well the position matched the finder, not the tag.
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  5. Stress is highly systemic and can indeed exacerbate all sorts of things severely.
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  6. I've had the pleasure of getting arrested for being illegally confined by the police force. One of the ever so kind things they told me was their excuse for beating me with a weapon; they're allowed to carry weapons. Oddly enough, it was not the presence of a tool I was objecting to, it was being attacked and harmed.
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