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Phone theft is gonna be wild again without part pairing.

I don't think it should be the responsibility of your device to make itself as close to useless as possible to deter theft. Besides, most thieves rarely do their due diligence on checking what phone maker or model it is, they just swipe it out of your pocket and sell it to the nearest pawnshop. Groups sophisticated enough to smuggle parts already do so with Apple's anti-repair measures. Besides, wouldn't such legislation force Apple to sell official new parts, removing the need to harvest them from existing phones?

It changes the risk rewards curve and mare it more likely for thieves to abandon the device.

If you want a device without node locking and part pairing then go buy one - most android phones are still like that.

Yes, thats why it never happens in wallet gardens.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/apple-settled-after-repair-tec...

>Apple has paid a multimillion-dollar settlement to a woman who sent her iPhone in for repair and had her private racy images and a sex video

1. It's a matter of rates, not ifs 2. It's is a lot easier to track hardware you originated than datayou didn't.

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