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To piggyback this topic - I think cameras should feature an equivalent of iCloud lock. These are things worth thousands of dollars, and are dead easy to sell on
by wtk 10y ago
To piggyback this topic - I think cameras should feature an equivalent of iCloud lock. These are things worth thousands of dollars, and are dead easy to sell on once stolen. I would sign a petition that would convince camera makers to add a theft protection like above. Am I missing something here? The same should go for expensive lenses that should have a coded list of bodies they are permitted to work with.
- 3pt14159 10y agoMy friend went to Washington DC for a vacation and got mugged with a gun. The muggers made her enter her iCloud password (which she was having trouble remembering) so they could turn off the "find my iPhone" feature so they could sell the iPhone. When she stumbled for the second time, one of the two guys said "let's just shoot her and get out of here" the implication being that by the time the cops had come they would have offloaded the iPhone to someone else. Thankfully she entered it correctly the third time, but it kinda changed my opinion on remote bricking. I don't want someone to want to kill me just so they can make $400 before I can brick the device.
- discreditable 10y agoThat's still a little strange considering that once she reports it stolen, US carriers will blacklist the IMEI and make it unusable here.
- wtk 10y agoIn such scenario you should be able to have a secondary password. Once you type it in, your phone unlocks but is also getting flagged (should look exactly like normal unlock). I know it would be scarry thing when you're at gunpoint..
- 3pt14159 10y agoThe whole experience is just too real for me. Fuck up your password = death. I'd rather just have my thumbprint or something I can't screw up unlock it easily.
- detaro 10y agoCameras don't phone home regularly (some nowadays have WLAN, but far from all, and it is mostly for communication with a phone), so there is no good way to get a lock-signal to them without adding a mechanism extra for that. Offline schemes with timeouts or something still have a risk of going wrong. Professional photographers have insurance, so most of them probably rather would loose a camera than having one lock up by accident when needed, or any complications added to robberies. Right now, at least some the large manufacturers don't even have registries for stolen devices in case they turn up or get sent to service, that's something that could be improved easily.
- wtk 10y agoIt could be a proximity sensor at home, a token of some kind, that you need to touch your camera with, say once a month to keep it going. A stolen camera like this would become useless after a month. Once it becomes common knowledge, it could deter buyers and thieves..
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