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allthetimetoday at 4:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Or you can just remotely brick the devices so there is no value in stealing them.


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adolphtoday at 5:01 PM

Isn’t that already the case, yet some amount of store theft still occurs?

It could be there is a base rate of people who don’t know yet and thus a natural rate would be higher if remote locking wasn’t a thing.

https://xkcd.com/1053/