openhaystack

It's always worth mentioning that you can create your own custom tracker device that uses the Find My network. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/ As the protocol is already reverse engineered you can actually just DIY a tracker even more unnoticeable than Airtags that generates new keys periodically to trick the Iphones into thinking it's a new Airtag that never saw before.

I’ve researched this for probably the same reason. The simple answer is „no“. As far as I know you can locate an AirTag through the Find My-App on a Mac, but you can’t add one to your account. Retrieval of the data from Apple requires an iCloud account and the keys required to decrypt it is stored in the key storage of your iDevices. By my knowledge it seems to be theoretically possible to use the network with no iDevice and a bunch of faking, but I think it hasn’t been done so far. For work around the network you may be interested in OpenHaystack (custom trackers and client, https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack) and Send My (custom messages over the network utilizing OpenHaystack, https://github.com/positive-security/send-my).

In fact literally anyone and anything can use the Find My network if they want. Apple can’t stop “rogue” devices from connecting to it without bricking AirTags. You can get a sense of the protocol here. https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack

I haven't tried this, but I did bookmark it in case I want to some weekend: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack "OpenHaystack is a framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network. Use it to create your own tracking tags that you can append to physical objects (keyrings, backpacks, ...) or integrate it into other Bluetooth-capable devices such as notebooks."

You would have to flash their headphones with custom firmware to do this. Take a look at https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-does-apples-f...