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Re: Ok , that is just messed up. said by BosstonesOwn:We are from the government and we are here to help !
Anyone else thinking this has to do with a false sense of security ? I mean really , an international stolen phone can still be used ! Let's track those too ! Or how about just using I don't know, a prepaid phone paid for with cash ?
Are we really to blind to see the crap that is happening in the name of we are here to help ?
The UK has had a blacklist for quite some time - phones are blocked quickly, and the lists are shared across (at least) Europe if not further afield.
The system works well, isn't really intrusive, doesn't involve tracking (it's just a list of reported stolen IMEIs after all) and is pretty much uncontroversial.
This is after all the point - to stop lost/stolen phones from being used on as many networks as possible, to reduce their value and so help lower/prevent theft. Nothing to do with tracking.
Hopefully the US contributes to and uses the list that is used in Europe to make a stolen phone even more useless. |
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| said by ohreally :Hopefully the US contributes to and uses the list that is used in Europe to make a stolen phone even more useless. Great idea! Similar to what they do with cars. AFAIK, the car VIN sh!t list is international, so if a car gets reported stolen, totaled or salvaged in one part of the world, it cannot be registered anywhere.
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| I call BS on this one, I had my truck stolen and the thing turned up in Saudi Arabia 9 months later.
Yet it was registered and was being driven, the reason we even found it was that I had setup the nav system to report when check engine lights came on.
The person must have connected it to wifi to sync the music library and it emailed me the report, which we sent to the police and the insurance company, no one did a thing. and it sends me frequent reports when the person syncs with the music library.
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Boston, MA | I can imagine why the Everett police and your insurance company weren't able or willing to do anything about your truck in Suadia Arabia. |
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said by Pirate515:Great idea! Similar to what they do with cars. AFAIK, the car VIN sh!t list is international, so if a car gets reported stolen, totaled or salvaged in one part of the world, it cannot be registered anywhere.
Yeah, that's BS. Other than the story of the truck in Saudi Arabia, Mexico has tons of stolen cars that were taken from this country. |
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Sounds like a job for Interpol! |
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| No sounds like a job for my insurance company who is global to go and try and get the vehicle back. Instead they bump my rates to compensate for some ass who stole my stuff. It's not right.
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| Yeah, that's no good. Thankfully I have never had a car stolen, but I would want someone to kick some ass on my behalf if it did happen! |
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vpokoPremium
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Boston, MA | reply to BosstonesOwn
They have to balance the cost of writing off your car versus the cost of trying to track it down halfway around the world. Either way that cost is getting passed onto the customer. |
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| said by vpoko:They have to balance the cost of writing off your car versus the cost of trying to track it down halfway around the world. Either way that cost is getting passed onto the customer.
But that is exactly the problem, they pass it on to us , but yet they won't go after the criminals who do it. Very bad precedent to set.
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