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> If you're a cargo delivery guy and someone decides to ship 500 airtags for fun that you walk by, are you now just screwed in over charges

No because AirTags have to be enabled and registered before they become part of the network. At shipping time their battery is not plugged in.

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I meant shipping activated AirTags as a “prank” or to otherwise cause chaos. People are already shipping individual activated ones to see where they end up.

Or if 500 separate people saw those news stories and each did it individually for legitimate package tracking, perhaps that would be a more believable situation.

That's a $50k prank to … use up some data and battery?

For 50k you can do a lot more damage "as a prank".

I assume you never visited YT?

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