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Even easier, power them off ASAP. Don't turn it back on until you've removed the SIM and taken it out of any Wifi range. These anti-theft services all rely on
by dublinben 12y ago
Even easier, power them off ASAP. Don't turn it back on until you've removed the SIM and taken it out of any Wifi range. These anti-theft services all rely on having connectivity.
- cwe 12y agoExactly why phones NEED to require the passcode/touch ID/whatever when turning the device off. Could add the same to Sim removals: "SIM HAS BEEN REMOVED, ENTER PASSCODE TO DISABLE ALARM"
- crunchy_toast 12y agoOr just build cerberus into your ROM and use the authorised SIM feature. It will take a pic and send me an email of its location if another SIM is put in.
- notahacker 12y agoIt presumably isn't impossible to design phones with hardware designed to transmit their identity as soon as connectivity is restored even after the SIM and firmware is replaced, the credible threat of which would be enough to eliminate black markets in that type of mobile phone. The cynic in me suspects that carriers and OEMs long ago estimated the marketing benefit from an "unstealable" phone to be rather less than the revenue from more marketable overpriced phone insurance and increased replacement rates.