Comments on: iPhone 3.0 to offer MobileMe users “Find My iPhone” feature http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/18/iphone-30-to-offer-mobileme-users-%e2%80%9cfind-my-iphone%e2%80%9d-feature-2/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:23:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brau http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/18/iphone-30-to-offer-mobileme-users-%e2%80%9cfind-my-iphone%e2%80%9d-feature-2/comment-page-1/#comment-17894 Brau Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:29:55 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=3346#comment-17894 I hope this feature would activate the iPhone's GPS based on a hardware based serial number so that a thief can't simply default or Jailbreak the software to subvert it. I already had one cellphone stolen and thought about how nice a feature like this would be ... until I thought about whether I'd really want to locate a thief and face them. No point in getting beat up too. It's only useful to me if the cops are willing to help. I hope this feature would activate the iPhone’s GPS based on a hardware based serial number so that a thief can’t simply default or Jailbreak the software to subvert it.

I already had one cellphone stolen and thought about how nice a feature like this would be … until I thought about whether I’d really want to locate a thief and face them. No point in getting beat up too. It’s only useful to me if the cops are willing to help.

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