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I suppose the awkward part of blacklisting is that if a phone isn't immediately reported, someone may sell a stolen part to a repair business, which installs it
by asddubs 3y ago
I suppose the awkward part of blacklisting is that if a phone isn't immediately reported, someone may sell a stolen part to a repair business, which installs it, and then a week later the customers phone is locked down, through no fault of either the person who had their phone repaired or the repair shop
- AussieWog93 3y agoThe customer then kicks up a fuss, the repairman realises that the part came from a stolen phone and the supplier of these parts is either reported or blacklisted by the repairman and every other repairman they know.
- rekoil 3y agoA repair business doing that wouldn't be in business for long though. There are APIs available for verifying whether FindMy is disabled for the device in question, that might be a better proof that the device is honestly sold to a repair shop for parts. For devices broken enough that they don't turn on there needs to be a way to remove them from FindMy without using the device though... is removing them from the list available at https://appleid.apple.com https://appleid.apple.com enough?
- Dylan16807 3y agoThat's a situation where some kind of delay could handle it. They don't need to reuse those parts instantly. I doubt the fraction of people that report a theft after months have gone by is very big.
- Gigachad 3y agoThey would be blacklisted by default when attached to an icloud account and then the user can release the parts by unlinking the device.