It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously

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"'Find My iPhone' is neat, but it's time for smartphone makers and carriers to stop pretending (http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/359668/lets-start-taking-smartphone-theft-seriously) their anti-theft measures are anything more than minimum viable products, says blogger Kevin Purdy. He's not the first to point this out: Asreported in Slashdot (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/12/29/2334234/bloomberg-steve-jobs-behind-nyc-crime-wave), 'NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said overall crime in New York City was up 3.3% in 2012 due to iPhone, iPad and other Apple device thefts.' And now San Francisco and New York attorneys general are calling a 'Smartphone Summit (http://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/index.aspx?page=262)' where representatives from Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft are due to meet and discuss the implementation of a industry-wide 'kill switch' system."

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/06/06/2214215/its-time-to-start-taking-stolen-phones-seriously