I think there's enough of an incentive for hackers to figure out how to unbrick these phones that it wouldn't be much of a deterrent. If the bricking were trul

I think there's enough of an incentive for hackers to figure out how to unbrick these phones that it wouldn't be much of a deterrent. If the bricking were truly permanent, like blowing an efuse or something, the risk of false positives bricking phones that aren't really lost is probably higher than the phone makers are comfortable with.