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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by newbamboo on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:22PM (#28589525)
Cellphones shouldn’t be that important, but they are. 12 years is light given that increasingly phones are identity. Imagine stealing 2 million people’s SSN information.
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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by theadamp on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:25PM (#28589539)
How do you compare unlocking a phone for someone who bough it to stealing one's personal information? They're not similar in any way.
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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by NullPrefix on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:41PM (#28589610)
It's the generic "Terrorism and rape will happen if you are allowed to control your own device that you actually paid money for" FUD.

And the rape part is not an exaggeration, it was actually used as an argument against the Right to Repair ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EozPi1qmH44 ), wouldn't be suprised to hear it in this case too.

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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by newbamboo on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:44PM (#28589629)
I agree. There isn’t an alternative with cellphones because of the importance they hold, legally, financially, politically. Power in your pocket; like a gun.
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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by newbamboo on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:42PM (#28589619)
Everything is connected. You just view things from your own perspective, not from the perspective of the phone company or the banks etc…

I note you can scarcely even hope to explain the verdict. Your model doesn’t fit and so you have no ability to make sense of it.

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Re:Man who unlocked nearly 2M AT&T phones gets 12 years in p... by will4274 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:38PM (#28589590)
From the article:

> It’s not clear from the DOJ release whether anyone besides AT&T was harmed as a result of the scheme; there’s no mention of customers’ phones being otherwise compromised or any personal data being accessed. We’ve reached out to the DOJ to clarify whether any AT&T customers were affected.

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