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Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But decades of media has conditioned people to believe that most tech and IT stuff is basically magic, and that seems to nowadays include tech-centric journalists.

So they simply don't think about actual feasibility and just report omitting details because "look, tech wizard did tech-wizardry".