Actually, they should have tried with "ignore all previous instructions".
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
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#82> I checked Find My and my phone was indeed in China. It looked like it was in an office building conveniently located around the corner from an Adidas store, about 8,000 miles from me. You’d think for a police state, China would be just little bit better at cracking down on obvious crime that happens within their borders. But I guess not.
Often stances of the governments across the world are: we’ll ignore it unless it becomes a problem for us. Often, in organized crime, money flows back to the government and creates job opportunities for people that keeps them happy. There is a reason. Why there’s so many scam call centers in India. The government will turn a blind eye until someone comes in with proof that raises a stink or if other international gov…
> There is a reason. Why there’s so many scam call centers in India.
According to a commenter on HN from a few months ago [1], the reason is a political division - the scam callcenters are in West Bengal, where the ruling political party turns a blind eye due to corruption and to provide annoyance towards the federal government ruled by the BJP.
Re: Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
#83Honestly. This is a pretty good advertisement for Apple. I appreciate the effort that they've put into making my device less valuable to thiefs.
These days, it's not worth it to steal an iPhone. It's a useless brick. That Apple knows where it's at.
Clearly this isn't true, as her phone got stolen.
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#84And THIS is why i support parts pairing. 3 years ago, the LCD and battery could be resold making this worth it. This year - nope. I dream of a world where even the little screws that hold my iPhone together are parts-paired so stealing it costs more in effort than the possible $ recovered from it!
Agreed. Anti-theft is a higher priority for me than repairability.
I value autonomy more. I'm not someone interesting enough to observe, but I still want my privacy. I'm not so poor as that I have to take whatever I can get, but I still want to own what I buy, and have the freedom to do anything with it, including crimes if I so choose.
I won't commit crimes, and if I do I will pay the price, but I don't want a nanny to prevent me from doing precrimes that I would not have done in the first place.
I am not a mindless sheep, I require no societal shepherd.
All of that was said to say, I want the devices I purchase to be repairable by anyone that I deem worthy of repairing it, including myself.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Chinese government is not as competent as it tries to appear. 2. They do not care about foreigners or crimes unless they involve Chinese citizens.
>2. They do not care about foreigners or crimes unless they involve Chinese citizens. Don't know if they really care that much about Chinese citizens. Probably just the ones in the politburo.
It's worked out remarkably well for Chinese citizens given they don't care at all about them, then
Re: Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
These days, it's not worth it to steal an iPhone. It's a useless brick. That Apple knows where it's at.
Clearly this isn't true, as her phone got stolen.
Yup. I assume there is plenty of value to be found selling donor boards and other parts of the iPhone. Not saying it's a repair shop's fault if they end up with motherboards of a stolen phone, but if I were a thief dealing with an activation-locked phone, my first idea would be a jailbreak, and if that fails, then disassemble the phone and sell the parts.
Presumably thieves already do these things (and more sophisticated things) to extract value out of stolen iPhones.
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#87> I checked Find My and my phone was indeed in China. It looked like it was in an office building conveniently located around the corner from an Adidas store, about 8,000 miles from me. You’d think for a police state, China would be just little bit better at cracking down on obvious crime that happens within their borders. But I guess not.
Well this isn’t against a citizen. Also look at the murders going on in China now.
do you honestly think the murder rate in China is anywhere close to our own?
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#88> I checked Find My and my phone was indeed in China. It looked like it was in an office building conveniently located around the corner from an Adidas store, about 8,000 miles from me. You’d think for a police state, China would be just little bit better at cracking down on obvious crime that happens within their borders. But I guess not.
If we angled more towards detente with China, they probably would - but why do they have any reason to crack down on crime targeting an 'adversary' state?
The US hosts many Chinese criminal financiers and embezzlers that we have no intention of extraditing to China.
Re: Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
#89Honestly. This is a pretty good advertisement for Apple. I appreciate the effort that they've put into making my device less valuable to thiefs.
These days, it's not worth it to steal an iPhone. It's a useless brick. That Apple knows where it's at.
i see homeless people in SF disassembling iphones so clearly they have routed around this
Re: Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
#90Honestly. This is a pretty good advertisement for Apple. I appreciate the effort that they've put into making my device less valuable to thiefs.
These days, it's not worth it to steal an iPhone. It's a useless brick. That Apple knows where it's at.
It gets stripped down for parts. Many of the individual components are valuable