So this is how the California legislature spends its time? With all the real problems they have to grapple with, someone thinks up this, ostensibly to stop chi

So this is how the California legislature spends its time? With all the real problems they have to grapple with, someone thinks up this, ostensibly to stop child trafficking. "...$2500 per phone fine...if the seller or lessor manufacturer or operating system provider of the smartphone knew at the time of the sale or lease that the smartphone was not capable of being decrypted and unlocked by the manufacturer or operating system provider. This reads like something a randomly selected middle school dropout might think up. It's so poorly thought out as to be laughable. In fact I thought it was a satire, except that the URL looks legitimate. The easy workaround: manufacture exactly one phone per year that is capable of being decrypted and unlocked. Randomize it so that the manufacturer and distributor have no idea which phone. Thus, you will not "know at the time of the sale" whether it's capable of being decrypted. Thus, you're compliant with the law. I wonder how exactly they plan to enforce this one: "A seller or lessor manufacturer or operating system provider who pays a civil penalty imposed pursuant to this subdivision shall not pass on any portion of that penalty to purchasers of smartphones by raising the sales or lease price of smartphones." So, how will the state bureaucracy in charge of this thing know exactly why a company raises its prices? If this act is passed, manufacturers and sellers will raise prices immediately, in anticipation of impending and unavoidable fines. One might also ask: suppose they actually manage to pass this thing, destroy the smartphone industry in California, and child trafficking continues unabated? Oops.