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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[-] Krusty@quokk.au 1 points 18 hours ago

That's already the goal of factory reset protection...

Though there's ways to bypass FRP. And ultimately always will be.

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