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  • There’s a carefully designed process that involves sealing the phones in faraday bags so they can’t communicate with the outside worlds, and then replacing/reprogramming certain components so the phone works outside of the Find My ecosystem.

    These phones are reprogrammed and re-chipped en masse and then sent all over the world. See all those “mobile phone repair” shops all over your high street/strip mall? they’re all getting their stock from the same place.

    Apple operating the hardware pairing scheme is just a cat and mouse game with this industry.



  • If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

    maybe then they would not have:

    • forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
    • forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
    • given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
    • reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
    • reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
    • pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

    absolute roasters the lot of them









  • Trump is putting tariffs on things Americans buy from overseas that he believes should be made in America. The gamble is that companies that makes those products will choose to open factories/production in the US in response to the tariffs, which will create new jobs and growth in the country.

    In comparison, retaliatory tariffs suggested by Trudeau and Sheinbaum are going to impact high demand goods that Americans import that would be very difficult to source in the US (or elsewhere in the world) in the short term. There is unlikely to be significant impact to the Canadian or Mexican economies because Americans must purchase those items and absorb the extra costs.

    An example is cars, which can move back and forth across the border many times during assembly. Car manufacturers must simply absorb those extra costs due to the tariffs now.