Machen Sie gestohlene Telefone unbrauchbar, fordert die Londoner Met Police von Technologiegiganten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4dey905yo
Machen Sie gestohlene Telefone unbrauchbar, fordert die Londoner Met Police von Technologiegiganten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4dey905yo
31 Kommentare
What they’ll get is making second hand phones unusable
Or they can just jail/deport thieves no?
Stolen phones are disassembled and sold for parts.
they just want easier police work.
sorry, you’re gonna have to actually track down the phone and apprehend the criminals, and not just slough it off as oh well at least the phone doesn’t work anymore, like they can’t sell it for parts
Trojan horse of trying to introduce centralised disabling technology. Big nono
Correct me if I am wrong but this phones are sold back to china and are taken apart in back alleys for the parts so no amount of locking will help
People should still be streetsmart enough not to stare down at their phone while walking on the street. If your phone isn’t getting stolen, you’re running the risk of being hit by traffic.
UK has amazingly bright future, same as Bangladesh
Apple already does this with the device locked to iCloud login, it’s why they send iPhones to China so they get parted out.
My (US) iPhone already does this? Do UK and EU ones not?
All parts are locked to your Apple ID, making them useless as parts.
The chip inside needs to turn to poisonous jelly once stolen, the screen to explode in t minus 10 seconds
I totally do not want this. Someone has control over my phone being useable? No thank you.
A tech company? NO thank you
Here is an idea, don’t walk around with your face in your phone, be aware, it should be a natural human instinct.
Another and another attempt to fight consequence instead of reason.
Do fake forgotten phones operations: seemingly lost phone which actually filmed from two angles, have a police officer watching, have a tracker in it. Track from the moment of stealing to the moment of selling.
Then when guilt is 100% proven, it’s ok to use very harsh sentences, up to 5 years in jail instead of just fines.
Thief harm society indirectly much, much more than they benefit from selling a phone. This imbalance is badly wrong and benefits thieves.
Only concern is to completely avoid hitting innocent people. With splitting to usual crime vs 100% proven this can be achieved.
Make your country safe and you will not have to urge anyone.
They already are. Do they want a self destruct protocol so the parts are worthless?
Didn’t PM already made the UK unlivable ?
Rapes? Police urges the widespread use of chastity locks.
House getting robbed? Just don’t own anything.
Whatever it takes for bobbies having more time to monitor social media for the REAL crimes.
There is a project here in Brazil where once a phone is reported as stolen it gets blocked and a message appears on the screen that the phone is stolen and if the person is caught with that phone they could face criminal charges. As a result a lot of phones started showing up at police departments from unsuspecting buyers.
I don’t understand why people are so resistant to a similar idea.
So easily done really. Just like having screens black out when driving. These measures should absolutely be applied as well as many others which I’m sure others way smarter than I would attest or suggest…
Haha nice, “It is not like we are doing nothing, we asked tech giants to make phones unusable” 🙂
Counterpoint: As much as I don’t like theft, I like filling landfill with E-waste even less. Stolen phones should remain useable if only because we’re already in hot water on that front.
Or the met could actualy be on patrol
Don’t iPhones allow this already? Easy to remotely brick and iPhone and the resale market for parts isn’t so big when Apple phones are designed to be a nightmare to repair
But if no one is getting their phone stolen and have to replace it itll cut into their profit margins 🙁
London’s met police should do their work
You should be allowed to use booby trapped fake phones that you can detonate right after a thief took it.
If thief after thieft gets their hand blown off it will stop sooner or later
Maybe if they spent less time locking up grannies holding Palestine placards and more doing actual police work they could catch these thieves instead?
This is already a thing on both iOS and Android, with iCloud lock and FRP lock.
They’ll just use it for parts which are still worth hundreds.
This will just end up being another excuse to further lock down and restrict how we can use phones, without really solving the actual issue.
Stupid idea