The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has asked the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to force all phone companies to make stolen devices “unusable bricks” in order to make them harder to sell on and less desirable to steal.

  • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Because it’s the police’s responsibility to stop the snatchers in the first place? Not insist that other companies make up for their lack of results.

    It’s not a COMPLETELY terrible idea, I know Apple already bricks stolen phones upon request, but at the owner’s expense. It’s still the people hired to solve the problem passing the responsibility on to others.