{"id":216,"date":"2003-03-07T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/03\/07\/mobile-phone-theft\/"},"modified":"2003-03-07T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T11:07:38","slug":"mobile-phone-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/03\/07\/mobile-phone-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone manufacturers, police forces and various other people have got together to create <a title=\"Immobilise phone crime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.immobilise.com\">immobilise.com<\/a>, publicising the shared database used to lock out stolen mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great advance over the previous failure by phone companies to share the IMEIs (the unique identifying number of each handset) of stolen phones.<\/p>\n<p>However this still isn&#8217;t a guarantee that stolen phones can&#8217;t be used again.  With most phones reprogramming the IMEI is trivial &#8212; if illegal &#8212; and the manufacturers&#8217; attempts at preventing it are usually feeble.<\/p>\n<p>A quick internet search will reveal lots of sites providing information on reprogramming phones.  The manufacturers&#8217; idea of IMEI protection often only seems to consist of such advanced techniques as storing two copies, one of them obscured in some trivial way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone manufacturers, police forces and various other people have got together to create immobilise.com, publicising the shared database used to lock out stolen mobile phones. This is a great advance over the previous failure by phone companies to share the IMEIs (the unique identifying number of each handset) of stolen phones. However this still isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}