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All phones have a builtin kill switch. You need to compel the phone company to turn it off. But then there are ham radios. This is how things were done in Egyp
by fsckin 13y ago
All phones have a builtin kill switch. You need to compel the phone company to turn it off. But then there are ham radios. This is how things were done in Egypt... Look at how that turned out.
- nathan_long 13y agoA phone "killed" via service termination could just be given a different SIM.
- Karunamon 13y agoNot if it was added to the lost/stolen phone list. This blacklists the MEID/IMEI, which you're not getting around without hardware hacking.
- nathan_long 13y agoWhose lost/stolen list? A different SIM could be a different carrier. Eg, I switched from AT&T to Consumer Cellular with a SIM change.
- gareim 13y agoIs hardware hacking really required? My S3 ran the risk of losing its IMEI when I was messing around with custom ROMs, but before a solution was found, people put up guides on how to change the IMEI with software and it looked easy.
- mindslight 13y agoSome time ago, I cloned the ESN of my SPH-A680 onto an identical model (using QPST). When they were both on and next to one another, calling me made them both ring, and simultaneously answering both let me hear audio out of both. I doubt basebands have really changed - it's a culture of security through obscurity, with people unaware of the details assuming they actually provide their purported security guarantees.
- Karunamon 13y agoI was under the impression that the IMEI was burned into the baseband ROM at the lowest level, seems I was mistaken :)
- tzs 13y agoOr you just ship the phone to another country. The lost/stolen lists are not shared internationally.