Wouldn’t it be easier to steal them in China? It’s where most of them come from after all.
That’s the power of just one LED right there.
Video audio inaccurate? Maybe the guy was the Afghan national or it’s a different raid.
Article said Afghan guy, video said both woman and man were Bulgarian nationals.
Cops actually doing something? Wow, my opinion of them is now only 99.99% negative
>looks at link “British Broadcasting Channel”
>check location Ah, there we go, “UK”; American cops would just be eating donuts and getting fat
Fatter*
The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.
Nah our cops are also absolutely awful racists who never actually do any good too.
(it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)
British Bong Cooperative
🅱️ritish 🅱️ong cloud
Donuts worked out beating the shit out of people in custody if they don’t smell like good private lawyer.
How the fuck does this go on for 40,000 phones? Are phones in China not like in the western world where they’re effectively bricks without the ability to unlock them? Does nobody have FindMy or similar?
There’s a carefully designed process that involves sealing the phones in faraday bags so they can’t communicate with the outside worlds, and then replacing/reprogramming certain components so the phone works outside of the Find My ecosystem.
These phones are reprogrammed and re-chipped en masse and then sent all over the world. See all those “mobile phone repair” shops all over your high street/strip mall? they’re all getting their stock from the same place.
Apple operating the hardware pairing scheme is just a cat and mouse game with this industry.
The stolen phones can be broken up for parts. They probably aren’t just reselling the devices whole.
As far as I know recent iPhones all have parts pairing, so you can’t swap parts between phones unless Apple authorises it. Absolutely sucks ass for repairability, but it’s supposed to help in the context of stolen phones.
I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense
I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense
Even if they haven’t (yet), it’s still a recent development. There are plenty of old models out there without it, not to mention Android phones which hold the majority market share in the UK.
The phones are returning home 😅
China could very well be the redistribution point to elsewhere in the world. When you’re the global hub of shipping it’s much easier for a few bonus goods to make their way around the system.
You better eat that entire iPhone. There are starving children building them in china!
