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Apple is disabling and tracking some looted iPhones
Marketwatch ^ | 06/03/2020 | By Nicole Lyn Pesce

Posted on 06/03/2020 2:19:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Images of stolen iPhones are circulating on Reddit and Twitter TWTR, +8.12%showing a message that warns that the phone has been disabled and is now being tracked. The most viral image shows a device allegedly stolen from a Philadelphia store, with an alert reading: “Please return to Apple Walnut Street. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.”

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. MarketWatch reached out to Apple to verify that looted iPhones have been disabled and that the company has begun tracking them. A representative said that Apple doesn’t comment on matters of security, but he confirmed that demo devices taken illegally from Apple stores do bear warning messages like those being shared on social media.

It’s still unclear whether the company is doing this with stolen Apple laptops, tablets and watches, as well, or if someone who returns stolen property to the nearest store will face legal consequences

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; civilunrest; iphones; looters; riot
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To: Swordmaker

Apple protects its products well.


41 posted on 06/04/2020 2:56:39 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: EinNYC
Good. Now make them EXPLODE in the thieves’ faces...or laps.

That's Samsung, not Apple.

42 posted on 06/04/2020 4:55:52 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: roadcat
"Send $5000 immediately to the following account …

Your picture and address _and contact tracing information_ are on file and will be used to make your life hell until the $5000 is received. Have _Hope you had a_ nice day, _if you don’t pony up_ it will be your last. _quite a while before you have another_

LOL!

Now that is what I call an APP!

But of course you don’t run the company, and Tim Cook does. We’re lucky Apple doesn’t send out free coupons for music and whatever else he might think they’d want.


43 posted on 06/04/2020 5:42:05 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: SamAdams76

Someone would have to crack my passcode and get around my biometric signature.

A bricked iPhone/iPad is worthless to a thief.


44 posted on 06/09/2020 10:02:20 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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