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To: stlnative
Good finds. Since there is an injunction against Sol already, who is buying these phones from the lately?

Has someone else found out these phones were hackable from reading the descriptions of procedures in the legal case in which Sol is a defendent? Some articles mentioned a buyer in Dallas and a buyer in Dearborn. Some articles indicate the phones were to be shipped overseas.

In the Sol case the company resold the phones with their packaging, batteries and chargers intact.

I can see a company disscarding the packaging -now- and removing the brand name from the sets since the legal case focuses on the issue of logos and the phones being resold under the plaintiff's corporate name. Perhaps by discarding these things and selling the phone genericly an 'entrepreneur' the folks doing this hope to avoid getting sued.

What I don't see is a company like Sol discarding the battery chargers [the investigators noted that the items were repacked].

Perhaps the chargers and packaging weren't being discarded but just tossed in the same box until after the phones could be unlocked, and press reports weren't clear. These things were found in the vehicles, after all, and not in a dumpster.

I also don't see Sol being interested in flight manifests and airport security information which some defendents apparently had on them. But then, Sol- or whoever is the buyer now- may not concern themselves with how their phone-procurers plan to spend their paychecks.

75 posted on 08/16/2006 10:56:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: piasa
Batteries have to be removed to access the SIM Card through a couple screws on the body of the phone which are under the battery. It could be that they give the phone bodies to someone who then unlocks them, then the phones are returned to the buyers and they pop the batteries back in them to resell them as UNLOCKED phones.

Unlocking cell phones is a hot subject all over the internet, many people are looking for the unlock codes and people are more than willing to give them the info. Just google unlocking cell phones, unlock cell phone, unlocking Tracfones, etc...

The profits they make off the phones may be used for terrorism and it could be that the "unlocked phone sellers" take trade in's and it could be the trade in's are sent to Iraq to be made into detonators.
78 posted on 08/16/2006 11:35:02 PM PDT by stlnative
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