> Some are using the logic that people are killed over cell phones. I >> haven't heard any support that a kill switch deters further thefts or >> deaths. >> > > > If no stolen phone can ever be used again because all of them have been > killed, then they have no value to a thief and they won't be stolen. > > I think that's pretty obvious, but I'm not sure of how they can do it. If > someone steals a phone and turns it off right way, then nothing's going to > kill it, right? It might then be sold and shipped to Hong Kong. Are way > saying that there is no way that it can then be used in Hong Kong because > of the kill switch? I just don't understand how that switch works -- what > triggers it, and what is switching? I thought that the way the kill switches work in other countries is that the IMIE number is blocked and that a blocked IMIE number list is shared between cell providers. As long as the phone goes to a country that shares the IMIE block list with your country, then the phone is useless. If this kill switch bill is implemented this way, I believe it would bring us in line with Europe's kill switch policies. Some phones might still make it from Minneapolis to some non IMIE block-list country, but any low-level mugging thief won't have those connections, and Iran and Cuba only need so many iPhones. -- Michael Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140130/ce826638/attachment.html>