If someone in China starts harassing you or threatening you, just start sending messages that the two of you are conspiring to overthrow the Chinese government and the messages will stop real quick.
These Chinese mafia types talk tough until you start sending anti-Chinese government copy-pasta to them and they shut up real quick.
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
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#172What happens when you do this? Does the old device just stay on your account listed as a device forever?
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#173Isn't it illegal to knowingly buy stolen property? (I'm referring to the youtuber that bought the stolen phones).
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#174If someone in China starts harassing you or threatening you, just start sending messages that the two of you are conspiring to overthrow the Chinese government and the messages will stop real quick. These Chinese mafia types talk tough until you start sending anti-Chinese government copy-pasta to them and they shut up real quick.
They don’t. I have tried this and other similar things such as sending images banned in China (but otherwise totally fine). Perhaps they weren’t in China I suppose.
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#175If the phone was locked, passcoded, remote erased and sim-locked how did they know her number? I’m not doubting the story I’m just curious how they figured that out.
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#176> As long as I didn’t remove the phone from my Apple account or the Find My app, the phone was essentially bricked to anyone without the passcode and my iCloud password — unusable by the thieves, or the fences who I assume bought it from them.
I did not know this, and I wish it were better publicized.
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#177What a poorly written article. It could have been an interesting profile of what scammers do to scare people into undoing security measures, and how to avoid that.
Do these outlets not have editors? I'm surprised anyone would publish this.
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#178That escalated gradually!
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody risks stealing individual bricks from people's front yards. The risk exceeds the reward. The end goal here is to make the phone so useless that nobody even tries to steal it.
No, this is a side effect of Apple striving to design the world's most unrepairable devices, or more accurately, earn more money with overpriced repairs by creating an artifical monopoly on Apple device repairs using part pairing. Why else would there be no option to pair parts for repairs if you can prove that you are the owner of the device?
They often use security as an excuse to be anti-repair.
That doesn't mean they're lying any time they mention security. Many of the things they do really are to benefit the customer. One of those is having strong locks on stolen phones.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any supporting citations on the crime/murder rate in China?
I was curious after reading this, so I looked it up. Seems murder rate in china is 12 times lower than usa (source wikipedia). Actually murders rate in china is about the same as people killed by police in usa.
Do we have any evidence that China is telling the truth?