They do. It's location based. Once they leave the store they are only good for parts.You’d think the display models only would have a kill switch of some sort and could be remotely turned into a brick.
Nope. So don’t come here. You wouldn’t like it. Stay where you are.
You’d think the display models only would have a kill switch of some sort and could be remotely turned into a brick.
Perhaps they figured out a way to wipe them and install regular software.What's the point of robbing those Apple bricks? They can't be used, they can't be sold. You can only use them for their parts and those parts don't worth much without the Apple markup. The devices don't worth anything if they can't be used as how Apple intended.
I hope those silly people robbed Mac products only. iOS devices have a hardware encryption profile which Apple verifies when signing iOS, since they are Apple Store demos, Apple damn well knows the serials. The minute they try to let Apple sign or restore iOS, they are exposed. Poor guys don't be silly, it's all for nothing.Perhaps they figured out a way to wipe them and install regular software.
They allegedly kept doing it, so one would think they monetized their efforts.I hope those silly people robbed Mac products only. iOS devices have a hardware encryption profile which Apple verifies when signing iOS, since they are Apple Store demos, Apple damn well knows the serials. The minute they try to let Apple sign or restore iOS, they are exposed. Poor guys don't be silly, it's all for nothing.
I want to know how they did it, for the sake of Engineering and research. I have a hunch that FBI would work with the International Criminal Police Organization. If it becomes a global effort, maybe they would not be able to do it in other nations.They allegedly kept doing it, so one would think they monetized their efforts.
Yes the IMEI is blacklisted for each item so they won’t work with any carrier. Essentially they are sold for parts only or sold to the unknowing.I thought Apple made it pretty much impossible to steal demo models, aren't they tracked whenever they leave the store, and aren't they unable to be used like a normal device?
iOS devices have a hardware encryption profile which Apple verifies when signing iOS, since they are Apple Store demos, Apple damn well knows the serials. The minute they try to let Apple sign or restore iOS, they are exposed. Poor guys don't be silly, it's all for nothing.
Here's a saying that's appropriate here:But yeah, they're not the sharpest bunch of knives in the box that's for sure.
even laptops?They do. It's location based. Once they leave the store they are only good for parts.
Apple needs to install bars on the front that can drop down in seconds.
Also bars to block exit thru the back.
Trap the animals until the police/swat team arrive.
This made me chuckle.They were caught when police asked Johnny Appleseed to Find My Friend.
There are also a scam where a girl goes in an Apple Store. She tells customers if she can borrow their phone because hers is not working and she needs to make a desperate call. She says she will try to put her SIM in the customer’s phone to call her friend. If she is successful she says she can’t get a signal and they need to go outside. Then her accomplice outside steals the customer’s phone from her hand and runs away.
Apple will write off and pass the cost to us.