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"If the thousands of devices you mention were legitimately obtained, why were they locked with account credentials that you didn't have? Or were they recovered
by b3lvedere 5y ago
"If the thousands of devices you mention were legitimately obtained, why were they locked with account credentials that you didn't have? Or were they recovered from dumped recycling or something?" Oh that was not only smartphones, but also data carriers like harddisks and usb sticks. Apologies for not clarifying.
Nevertheless valid points indeed. Regarding smartphones people just forgot or died. Most of them 'assumed IT would have some way of recovering them so they did not bother'.
- taneq 5y agoOh, right yeah that makes sense. And a moment after I posted I remembered the "donate your old phone" bins that many mobile phone shops had last time I was phone shopping. I'd imagine most people dropping their 3-year-old iPhone into one of those wouldn't bother to disassociate their account with it before they hit reset and chucked it in.