Sorry folks, it’s not the Met’s fault they can’t get a grip on phone stealing, it’s actually Google and Apple that are the bad guys.
>Rowley said the tech companies had allowed the trade in second-hand phones to proliferate by >failing to introduce sufficient security measures to permanently disable devices. “I’m sure it’s >inadvertent, but it’s enabling the criminal business models, which are leading to tens of millions >of pounds being made out of this,” he said.
Am I missing something? I thought an ‘iCloud locked’ (when you have find my iPhone turned on) iPhone was essentially disabled?
What lazy journalism, as soon as they mentioned kids stealing display phones without mentioning they cannot be reprovisioned…
You can never stop someone breaking down a phone for raw materials but Apple have done a pretty good job of securing their devices.
Give good advice to phone owners to use existing features or whine about big companies.. hmm
I mean, it’s been obvious for years that this is organised crime. The scale and professionalism of it just doesn’t make sense for a few lone operators and opportunists.
4 comments
Sorry folks, it’s not the Met’s fault they can’t get a grip on phone stealing, it’s actually Google and Apple that are the bad guys.
>Rowley said the tech companies had allowed the trade in second-hand phones to proliferate by >failing to introduce sufficient security measures to permanently disable devices. “I’m sure it’s >inadvertent, but it’s enabling the criminal business models, which are leading to tens of millions >of pounds being made out of this,” he said.
Am I missing something? I thought an ‘iCloud locked’ (when you have find my iPhone turned on) iPhone was essentially disabled?
What lazy journalism, as soon as they mentioned kids stealing display phones without mentioning they cannot be reprovisioned…
You can never stop someone breaking down a phone for raw materials but Apple have done a pretty good job of securing their devices.
Give good advice to phone owners to use existing features or whine about big companies.. hmm
I mean, it’s been obvious for years that this is organised crime. The scale and professionalism of it just doesn’t make sense for a few lone operators and opportunists.
Comments are closed.