That doesn't seem like an accurate paraphrase at all.
The article says nothing about polling constantly, nor does it make any kind of suggestion that polling constantly is what makes it secure.
The article says nothing about polling constantly, nor does it make any kind of suggestion that polling constantly is what makes it secure.
> "The Find My Device network locates devices by harnessing the Bluetooth proximity of surrounding Android devices. Imagine you drop your keys at a cafe. The keys themselves have no location capabilities, but they may have a Bluetooth tag attached. Nearby Android devices participating in the Find My Device network report the location of the Bluetooth tag."
I hope you wear a ski mask everywhere, removed your license plates, and rolled your own mobile network...
It doesn't say that the phone is constantly polling the location to do so. Now, your paraphrase is compatible with that text, so it's possible that it's indeed how it works. But there are other equally consistent options, e.g. that the phone only reports bt device locations in when it already has a fine-grained location available anyway for other reasons. The latter kind of seems more likely to me (to minimize the impact on battery usage for users participating int he network), but in reality we don't know which of these two schemes (or some other one) is used. And since we don't know, it seems like bad form to just make up an interpretation and claim that it's what the article says.
And either way, the article also does not claim or imply that the security of the system relies on this "constant polling", which is how you paraphrased the article.