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AirGuard
- Two women have filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple for AirTag stalking
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Capturing Airtags beacons and messages.
The beacons should just use BLE. For Android there's an app that lets you detect beacons tracking you. You can check out the source code to see how they parse the packets https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
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Using Google Maps history to see if my boyfriend and I could have met earlier
Airguard kind of does this: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
It'll scan for bluetooth trackers in the background (and airpods and iphones) and can give you a per-device history.
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AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker who stole $15,000 of items from luggage
AirGuard is still detecting AirTags and iPhones for me, and it works in the background without needing manual activation.
A previous version of AirGuard had a bug that interfered with detection, but that issue was fixed in version 1.3.4 (released in May):
Apple's Tracker Detect app does not automatically scan for AirTags. Users must open the app and manually initiate each scan, then wait at least 10 minutes after detecting an AirTag before causing it to make a noise.
A much better alternative is the free and open source AirGuard app developed by the Technical University of Darmstadt. It automatically scans for AirTags, Tiles, and other Bluetooth tracking devices in the background. When AirGuard detects an AirTag, the user can cause it to make a sound immediately without having to wait.
- AirGuard: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard
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My friend found an Apple Air tag on her car. Genuinely scary.
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard probably
It's local, so if you have BT on, that's probably gonna cost more battery already
You could try AirGuard. It scans automatically in the background (if you let it) and is available in the official Google play store as well as F-Droid according to their Github.
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β³ 5 apps added, 63 updated at f-droid.org
AirGuard - AirTag protection (version 1.4): Protect yourself from Apple's Find My Tracking
Conversations
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β³ 1 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device
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β³ 1 apps added, 23 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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Instant Messaging: XMPP or Websocket
So XMPP is an awesome protocol in theory. Also many issues you're trying to solve are probably already solved in one of the specifications and I personally think that XMPP is missing out on clients. Some clients are nice (i.e. Conversations or Dino) but they are not as appealing as Telegram or Discord.
- More Instant Messaging Interoperability
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Signal losing SMS, what are you switching to for SMS?
I never give out my true cell phone number to anyone. In cases where I absolutely have to use SMS, I use Conversations with jmp.chat to send SMS over XMPP from an alternate number.
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Movim β A decentralized social platform built on XMPP
Unfortunately I haven't found a mobile XMPP client that has the same features as Movim.
For example, conversations.im still lacks Message Reactions, Threads, and Publish-Subscribe:
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Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.
Regarding audits, they happen regularly in the XMPP ecosystem, and if you are looking for e.g. a mobile client which has a good track record, I would suggest to look-up https://conversations.im/ (or https://quicksy.im/ since you are okay with contact discovery using mobile phone numbers), and perhaps https://siskin.im/ as an iOS equivalent.
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β³ 3 apps added, 53 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.10.10+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.
- Ejabberd scalability: single node with 2M concurrent users (2016
What are some alternatives?
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger fΓΌr Android 4.1+
Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android
openhaystack - Build your own 'AirTags' π· today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
anonaddy-android
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
darkmodewallpaper - π A live wallpaper for Android that respects dark theme mode π
Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.
Prosody IM - IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger