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I've heard about iPhone theft being worthless because of the locks that make them bricks after stealing... how in the world do thieves handle something like a m
by laweijfmvo 2y ago
I've heard about iPhone theft being worthless because of the locks that make them bricks after stealing... how in the world do thieves handle
something like a modern (connected) EV? You can't just sell it. Maybe you can part it out? but even maintenance of EVs seems pretty locked down these days...
- e40 2y agoShort term use. Joy rides and getaway vehicles.
- nothercastle 2y agoNot for 25k a tool. This is a professional outfit only type of device.
- e40 2y agoNot for the joy rides, I agree. For the getaway vehicles? Could be, right? Theft rings bring in a lot of money.
- wood_spirit 2y agoThere is a lot of media coverage explaining how iPhone tracking shows how stolen iPhones go to faraway countries that don’t block the imsi or china where they are stripped for parts.
- Etheryte 2y agoWhile this is true, it considerably reduces the value and hence incentive to steal them. I have no idea what the numbers are, but between the aggregation, shipping, stripping, etc, I would expect that you can only recover a small fraction of what you could get for a full phone otherwise.
- Fnoord 2y agoYou'd be surprised at how good the small hands in Shenzhen are at recovering all the tedious chips while being paid pennies. Generally, if we could do what Shenzhen could do in the West, we could. But we cannot compete, as they have various advantages (physical, economical).
- Etheryte 2y agoI'm not sure if I would count a lack of human rights, de facto labor slavery, etc as an advantage. Grinding people's lives into dust can give them an economic advantage, but it's not the kind of world we want to live in.
- laweijfmvo 2y agohow does that circumvent the need for the former password to restore the phone?
- hypeatei 2y agoThieves sometimes steal vehicles to scout and carry out other crimes or car thefts.