I capi della tecnologia potrebbero fermare il furto di telefoni cellulari, dicono i parlamentari
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y037pg41o
di hihepo1
I capi della tecnologia potrebbero fermare il furto di telefoni cellulari, dicono i parlamentari
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y037pg41o
di hihepo1
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You can very easily lock a phone completely using Find My. Why are people not doing that?
How do you square making tech more repairable and tech that is less stealable.
This is how I know MPs don’t actually understand the problems they are trying to tackle.
The phones that are being stolen are being used for the repairs market.
What they should be lobbying tech companies is for the tech companies to make legit repairs cheaper, that would kill the dodgy repair market dead, thus killing the demand for those parts, and theft.
mps do not know the first thing about tech, the online safety act and digital id fiasco made that painfully obvious.
Actually incredibly difficult to do, would require new manufacturing processes. Perhaps start requiring insurance for eBikes and actually investigate crime instead.
Or plod could do their damn job they’re paid for. This is getting beyond a joke.
So rather than tackle the difficult problem the government once again passes it on to other people to do their fucking jobs
Maybe if customers were less impressed by incremental changes in cameras and more by security?
MPs could start by mandating use of IMEI blacklisting. One of the reasons phone theft is so high in the UK and London in particular is most UK carriers aren’t using this.
> Joss Wright, an associate professor at the University of Oxford who specializes in cybersecurity, said that it is easier to use stolen British phones in China than elsewhere because many of the country’s network providers do not subscribe to an international blacklist that bars devices that have been reported stolen
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/europe/london-police-phone-theft-china-gang.html
So could proper funding of the Police, something that is within the control of MPs
Since many phone companies are global, they are the ones who can stop stolen phones connecting and being worth anything.
Tech companies are not the phone companies.
The answer from a personal level is to have insurance, and back up everything remotely (which most apps do anyway these days by default).
I could throw my phone in the Mersey for a laugh and have a new one up and running from the Vodafone shop in town, with all my shit on there and accessible just as it is now, before the store closes at 7pm tonight.
That way having your phone stolen is a mild annoyance, not a financial drain or a loss of anything important. Remote bricking of the stolen phone means it is useless for anything put parts.
I don’t understand why iOS and android both have accelerator based locking built in. If your phone is dropped or snatched it locks.
Does this sound like politicians shifting the blame so they don’t have to take accountability for all those Police cuts to anyone else?
I was told that phone theft was a right wing conspiracy theory and that crime is at record lows.
Which tech bosses?
We gonna see the zuck running after some phone thieves with nunchucks?
I think the simplest thing is to make phones lock if they start moving too fast all of a sudden. Most new phones have the ability to gauge speed, and that would help with stolen data.
It would be useful if when you added a device to your Apple account, it not only locked the device as a whole to your account (as it does now), but the individual components too. Then if an iPhone detects it’s using stolen parts (because the owner locked the parts), it refuses to work until they’re replaced. It would dramatically reduce the market for stolen parts, and wouldn’t add any more overhead to resellers who already have to check the device is unlinked from an Apple account.