fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoOne iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to Chinawww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down16
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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 day agoSeems like something you could accomplish with jailbreaking. Or perhaps a bit of soddering. These devices aren’t magic. Stealing and shipping phones at this scale halfway around the world seems inefficient to say the least. But I guess organized criminals and their clients aren’t always that smart.
minus-squareSoup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIt’s not about efficiency, it’s about it working. They don’t exactly need to do it at a price point because it’s a “price is what I say it is” kind of deal.
Seems like something you could accomplish with jailbreaking. Or perhaps a bit of soddering.
These devices aren’t magic. Stealing and shipping phones at this scale halfway around the world seems inefficient to say the least.
But I guess organized criminals and their clients aren’t always that smart.
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about it working. They don’t exactly need to do it at a price point because it’s a “price is what I say it is” kind of deal.