An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia

First time accepted submitter xx_chris writes "Cell carriers can and do brick jail broken cell phones but they won't brick stolen cell phones. Except in Australia. The Australians apparently have been doing this for 10 years and it reduces violent crime since the thieves know they won't be able to sell the stolen phone. The article points out that cell carriers have a financial disincentive to do this since a stolen phone means another sale."

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Re:Disincentive?

[Gideon Wells]

These kind of posts seem to be popping up a lot and off topic the last day or so. Are they always this bad or did I just not notice them till I was trying to burn off my mod points?

I don't see a link... so not an advertisement.

This is Slashdot where the cool-aid has already been drank, urinated, recycled through open sourced urine recycling hardware/software pirated from NASA, and drank again. Not astro-turfing unless it is of the 2-minute hate variety. Of course it could be trojan-astro-turfing by coming off as so vitriolic and annoying to drive people away from that mentality.

Just trolling maybe?

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[gavron]

Here's a way to improve the world. Get rid of racist foul-mouthed jerks.