Itheras
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1 year ago Apple seems to be tolerant or not interested in us hobbyist doing test and small projects. I would say don't try to make a business out of it, don't try to track people and don't run the api to the public. To answer your Question directly this uses undocumented API in an unintended way opening the api freely in the open for the public with likely result in 2 actions. apple contacting you to stop it and a change in the api and block this type of use. With all the news on apple AirTags and the find my network in regarding to stalking it is more that likely that they will not openly and purposely document the api for public use at least at this time. "This is all an observation and opinion". As long as we run it privately and without causing issues to apple we have chance of this running for some time. Now hopefully they do open it even is for a fee.
Hi and thanks for the great work.
I do not have nor want to own a Mac (I already have an iPhone and do not want to get stuck by lock-in) but I would still like to explore OpenHaystack and its possibilities as a prototypist.
If I understood correctly the proxy server allow to use a mobile app but still delegating the tracking to a Mac so that "The proxy server can be accessed over a network by multiple users simultaneously." Is anybody making that available? If not is it due to lack of interest, security, privacy or volume concerns?