> 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues A junkie sells it to someone who buys these. That person sell

> 2) Every 2-bit criminal knows A Guy who can re-use any part of a stolen iPhone without issues A junkie sells it to someone who buys these. That person sells it on and so on. So eventually you end up with a company that buys a broken iphones in bulk to recycle the parts to resell. So not every 2-bit criminals knows a guy who can re-use the parts, they know a guy who'll buy the phone and they don't care after that. People who are stealing phones are stealing them for a reason, they can sell them for drug money. But also, it's only newer phones that have this issue (I suspect jailbreaking will allow them so that is probably also getting done) so older iPhones are still up for grabs. But as you can see here https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Faz043borltp51.jpg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa... they do seem to still work but give off a message