- A stolen device that is 100% brick has zero value, so there is no incentive to steal it.
- A stolen device that can be used with some limitations can be sold for a higher price, so there is a much higher incentive to steal it.
Call me petty all you want, but if you steal my Mac I'd much prefer it to end up in a landfill rather than have the thief make money from it. If they can't sell them, they'll stop stealing them at some point.
>> A stolen device that is 100% brick has zero value, so there is no incentive to steal it.
>Clearly false. The parts still have value.
Yeah, the current implementation of activation lock does not brick 100% of the laptop.
But nevertheless, since the video is about locked Macs being scrapped, the value of the parts must be pretty low.
> Environment be damned, right?
I assume that the environmental impact of stolen Macs being scrapped is going to get lower and lower as thieves realise locked Macbooks have a low resale value.
> Yeah, the current implementation of activation lock does not brick 100% of the laptop.
Even if it did, the part still have value.
> the value of the parts must be pretty low.
I mean, screens, ram, hard drives etc are worth whatever they are worth.
> I assume that the environmental impact of stolen Macs being scrapped is going to get lower and lower as thieves realise locked Macbooks have a low resale value.
When they steal they don't often know what type of machine they are stealing as they can't see in bags.
The suggestion I made is better for the environment without making things better for thieves.
- A stolen device that can be used with some limitations can be sold for a higher price, so there is a much higher incentive to steal it.
Call me petty all you want, but if you steal my Mac I'd much prefer it to end up in a landfill rather than have the thief make money from it. If they can't sell them, they'll stop stealing them at some point.