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What I'm seeing here is that Apple has a really shitty, poorly thought out design. To keep the phone useless to somebody who steals it, you have to keep it exposing your contact information so that people can threaten you.
And yes, e-SIM solves this problem.
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If it's wiped then there's no data for them to get?
how did the thieves get the phone number of the author, then? is it on the lock screen when the phone is wiped, in order to facilitate its return?
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Misconception: police solve crimes. Truth: police protect their employers.
Misconception: Police are trained to investigate and solve crime Reality: Police absolutely hate doing the "boring" parts of their jobs. Property crime clearance rate is an abysmal ~10% and everyone knows a handful of people who reported a theft, large or otherwise, and got nothing but a police report. Meanwhile they had plenty of time to come to our local supermarket and harass a 6 year old that tried to pocket a ca…
~ I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing, http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer
What I'm seeing here is that Apple has a really shitty, poorly thought out design. To keep the phone useless to somebody who steals it, you have to keep it exposing your contact information so that people can threaten you.
What information do thieves get from an erased iPhone and how did they contact the legitimate owner? Does it say something like "locked and linked to sarah96@icloud.com" or can it display custom messages like "owned by sarah xyz, please call +43..."? Could it possibly get you into situations where people can successfully threaten to physically harm you because your contact information doxxed you?
I assume they just eject the SIM card tray and get your phone number from the SIM by simply putting it into another phone.
This seems like a lot of work for one (or two, once it got to China) people repeatedly trying to get into the phone. I wonder if this is like debt collection agencies where the stolen phones get repeatedly fenced at a steadily decreasing value, and each new owner has a go at sending out these unlock copypastes until it's clear that it's only value is in being scrapped.
What I'm seeing here is that Apple has a really shitty, poorly thought out design. To keep the phone useless to somebody who steals it, you have to keep it exposing your contact information so that people can threaten you.
“when trying to reset my phone they are prompted to enter my iCloud password. My iCloud email is also one of the ways to reach me via iMessage. So they used that to contact me”
What I'm seeing here is that Apple has a really shitty, poorly thought out design. To keep the phone useless to somebody who steals it, you have to keep it exposing your contact information so that people can threaten you.
Well this also applies if someone friendly finds your phone and wishes to return it. It's a catch 22 there.
lol no.
That location is the Huaqiangbei electronics market - one of the largest electronics markets in the world w/ a thriving 2nd hand parts ecosystem.