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Why not just take them to Apple or third party to be recycled. Allowing you to profit from someone’s lost iPhone invites criminal behaviour and potentially all
by threeseed 3y ago
Why not just take them to Apple or third party to be recycled.
Allowing you to profit from someone’s lost iPhone invites criminal behaviour and potentially allows you to access private information that is still on the phone. No one at a bar asked for that.
- qingcharles 3y agoIt's more nuanced than that, though. I try to be the most ethical person in the room. I don't want to make a profit from someone else's loss, but the bar owner had tried to find the owners and these were the ones that couldn't be traced. I totally understand the motivation with setting the phones up like this. In theory it should stop theft if there is literally no incentive to steal someone's phone because nothing can be re-used. I just wanted to flash them back to factory and use one of them because I was homeless and needed a phone. I would have happily returned them to Apple for recycling (have you seen their iPhone recycling machine?!), but someone set fire to the building where I'd stored them and so they all went up in flames...