Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.
Nope, it makes it more valuable to the people who distribute it - no more pesky freeloaders!
(just like drugs, etc.)
the market value for that type of stolen phone will be much lower.
It should be ZERO. Nada. Zilch.
Nope.
If the government knows who they are then I'm sure they'd rather listen in than kill the phone.
I don't get it. Why would the government want a kill switch? Your phone company can already block your phone from the network at any time. The government could just tell them to do it.
You should be worried about the government listening in, not killing your phone.
If the 'kill' needs a PIN, and that PIN is on a scratch card in the box then who can abuse it...?
Apple's scheme doesn't go far enough. Software will be hacked, it needs to blow a fuse in the CPU and destroy it.
Why "kill" a device when you stand a good chance of getting it back?
No you haven't. Even if you know where it is, what are you going to do? Really...?
Besides, you're in charge of whether or not it's killed. You have to report it stolen.
Killing it does nobody any good, and has lots of quite horrible abuse potential
Yes it does. Read the summary - people are being mugged and murdered for their phones. A kill switch makes them worthless to thieves.
First he manipulates them into preparing a series of suspicious denials and preoccupy them coming up with it.
a) Why would they do that if it isn't true?
Plus if he accidentally hits or something real he can scare the crap out of them into dropping it.
b) This isn't the sort of thing you can prove by accident. Either there's proof or there isn't.
(Of course, if there *is* proof they'll just claim he photoshopped it...it would have to be absolutely amazing proof for denial not to work - like the head of the FBI and three of the PM's best friends all siding with Kim Dotcom)
The whole process isn't even that expensive, so long as you don't mind improvising a bit for an enlarger.
...assuming you want them on paper. Why not scan the negatives?
what fairytale are you living in? humanity is just as bad as it always has been.
What fairytale are you living in? Humanity has become much less violent, much more intelligent, and much more productive over the last few centuries.
Yeah? I've got a few neighborhoods you might like to walk through.
(And they're "first world", I promise...!)
Their products only last a year, by then you would be two versions behind and obsolete.
That's a good thing. If they have to replace yours under warranty you might get a newer model.
It's great that Slashdot is giving coverage to the above story...
Hasn't Adolph Hitler beaten them to it by about 80 years?
The nutters are out in force today...
I'd better stop posting, my plan is obviously completely unworkable if the PINs aren't generated using grated unicorn poop.
a) You seriously think people are really going to set up fake cellphone towers and try to brute force people's pins just for the lulz?
b) With about 0.000001% of my brain power I can think of a way around your "unsolvable" problem. Can you think of a basic flaw in my plan or just mindless nitpicks based on key sizes and whatnot?
Bottom line: If you're buying shrink-wrapped iPhone boxes from strangers based on the weight of the box then you deserve to be scammed.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
