• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Bricking someone’s hardware, that they’ve paid for, is a crime already. It should be treated like a crime even if the person doing the bricking is the phone manufacturer. It’s not their phone once they’ve sold it

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      If we wanted to own the devices we bought, we would have needed to start 20 years ago.

      Now it’s too late, the only reasonable thing you can do is clawing back control over your device by installing a custom ROM.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed. But it’s good for authorities, and as the mexicanist authorities demonstrated, to treat this as a crime. To prevent companies from doing this.

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      Ownership no longer has the same definition in the eyes of corporations and governments!

      As concerning as that is, more so is the fact that the same infrastructure could be used for malicious intentions. That is ransomware level of control they reserve simply because they manufacture these devices.

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    So people illegally imported cell phones. Illegal in the eyes of the Mexican government? If so, it’s interesting that they care about protecting the consumers of illegal devices.

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    That they would even build such a remote lock into “not their phone” is Orwellian technofacism.

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      I’m confused about that too. Apparently it is in the contract that you aren’t allowed to take your device you legally purchased with you where you want, or to sell it after buying it? Or are they only allowed to sell their phone to people in the same country as themselves? Or something?