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Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’ (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] recursivepickle@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

And how should this switch be operated, and by who?

It's hard to imagine a kill switch for a communications device meant to be used for rendering a stolen device inaccessible or useless being misused by anyone with power anywhere in the world. At all.

Ever.