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July 24, 2018 04:50 pm PDT
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Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons
Back in 2015, California enacted legislation requiring cellphone makers to equip their products with over-the-air kill-switches that could be used to brick stolen phones; the idea was to reduce the incentive to steal phones (a crime that often involved a surprising amount of violence) because as soon as the phone was stolen, it would stop working forever. (more…)
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