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Here’s what Houston looks like this morning after rally over George Floyd’s death
Click2Houston.com ^ | May 30, 2020 | Briana Zamora-Nipper

Posted on 05/30/2020 12:13:47 PM PDT by hout8475

Profanity is spray painted along the rail line. Shattered glass littered the street. A downed traffic light and an overturned planter lay on sidewalks. Businesses were vandalized and at least one, a Verizon store location, was looted.

This is what downtown Houston looked like Saturday morning following a “Justice 4 George Floyd” demonstration held the day before, sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for several minutes.

(Excerpt) Read more at click2houston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: floyd; george; houston
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To: freedumb2003
Apparently modern devices can brick themselves once they detect a cell or wifi when they broadcast their MAC address. And unless you are in the Himilayas such a signal will be found.

Well, when that tech turns on the phone it sends out an IMSI to see if any cellular carriers knows about the phone SIM card. If not then it is up to the tech to type in something on the phone to register the phone on their network and something on their network to allow the SIM. Can't brick itself based on that. Also the SIM can often be removed and the new IMSI won't be in the brick-yourself database.

The other choices are MAC and IMEI. But those require a network connection, then the phone would have to be programmed to look itself up in the brick-yourself database based on IMEI or MAC. The MAC is used to get an IP from a router and doesn't go beyond the router, but the phone can get the network connection and send IMEI and/or MAC to the retailer's network to find out if it is in the brick-yourself database. That'a a theoretical possibility.

That iniital lookup could be blocked preventing the phone from doing the lookup. In fact if the retailer's server is down, the lookup won't happen. The GPS location might be useful for the cops but can't be used for the brick yourself feature. There's not going to be a database of locations (e.g. stores) to not brick yourself. Also GPS can be unavailable.. No layers, just a database. Were all the IMEIs or MACs known for phones in the inventory, can they subtract the remaining phones at the store from the list, then put the list in the brick-yourself database? Maybe. But you'll need a real tech to explain how.

41 posted on 05/30/2020 7:52:00 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: The Pack Knight

[Not as bad as I had feared, but I am glad I got myself
and my son out of downtown when I did yesterday. It was sad watching the owner or manager of Zutro trying to save his business from the animals breaking windows.]


Thanks for the update. Glad you were nowhere near these vandals.


42 posted on 05/30/2020 9:43:53 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: palmer

>>That iniital lookup could be blocked preventing the phone from doing the lookup. In fact if the retailer’s server is down, the lookup won’t happen. The GPS location might be useful for the cops but can’t be used for the brick yourself feature. There’s not going to be a database of locations (e.g. stores) to not brick yourself. Also GPS can be unavailable.. No layers, just a database. Were all the IMEIs or MACs known for phones in the inventory, can they subtract the remaining phones at the store from the list, then put the list in the brick-yourself database? Maybe. But you’ll need a real tech to explain how.<<

You are overthinking this. Your *average looter* will go home, turn it on, the MAC will be found and the GPS transmitted (of course there is a database linking MACs and physical phones). Verizon will know where the device is and the device will be immediately bricked.

People who know how to defeat this do not generally loot and burn.


43 posted on 05/31/2020 9:34:24 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: hout8475
How many of these people were "grateful" when the white "Cajun Navy" saved them from the floods of Hurricane Harvey before Houston bought a fleet of high-water rescue vehicles?

-PJ

44 posted on 05/31/2020 9:48:12 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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