CTIA Says Stolen Phone Database Is Complete
Anybody played GTA V ?
Install the same deterrant in real devices as is installed in the Life Invader missions in GTA V. Someobdy tries to use a stolen phone, BOOM. No more head.
Seriously, that would be a pretty damn good deterrant.
Seriously, that would be a pretty damn good deterrant.
Sure, sure. Good idea, but the bleeding hearts would go all "It's not humane"...
That's the same thing people who support death penalty believe, that it will stop crimes from being commited.
Sadly, crime rates have increeased.
but at least it will lower the problem with overpopulation a bit... 🤣
Sadly, crime rates have increeased.
but at least it will lower the problem with overpopulation a bit... 🤣
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Who Is This For?
Is this wireless data base for the consumer or for the protection of the carrier?
Ironically, CDMA already blocks and bans ESN/MEIDs from being activated on their networks if they are not "branded" devices, deactivated by the carrier, lost, stolen, or the account they were attached to never had the ETF paid off (even if the account is 10+ years old and written off).
As for GSM, European carriers already have done this for a decade or more anyway. Leaving at least one giant mobile device market out for thieves to not be able to use devices in.
I look at this as a way for carriers to lock down more devices. Eventually it will expand into lost devices not just stolen ones, it will expand into devices with balances on them, etc... Th...
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Ironically, CDMA already blocks and bans ESN/MEIDs from being activated on their networks if they are not "branded" devices, deactivated by the carrier, lost, stolen, or the account they were attached to never had the ETF paid off (even if the account is 10+ years old and written off).
As for GSM, European carriers already have done this for a decade or more anyway. Leaving at least one giant mobile device market out for thieves to not be able to use devices in.
I look at this as a way for carriers to lock down more devices. Eventually it will expand into lost devices not just stolen ones, it will expand into devices with balances on them, etc... Th...
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Or maybe some swindler reports their phone "stolen" to get a new one (when I worked in a phone store, numerous sociopaths would actually announce their intention to do such things and ask me if it would "work"), and then sells the old one on ebay.
