Google is upgrading Factory Reset Protection in an upcoming Android 16 release to make it much harder for thieves to sell stolen phones.
  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    2 个月前

    Call your carrier to blacklist the IMEI. Done.

    It has always worked this way, well before the smartphone era.

    The only way to overcome is to find a country the phone works with and has carriers not part of the blacklisting networks. Doesn’t make for a very practical resale market…

    So, now that’s out of the way, what control is Google actually trying to sneak in then?

  • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    431·
    2 个月前

    And how does it detect if something is „Stolen“ again?

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      2413·
      2 个月前

      Spyware. Tracking. Extensive databases. Sneakily active mics and cameras. SIM cards requiring phone numbers tied to government issued ID. Security cameras. Smart home. Facial recognition. Fingerprints. Been incarcerated? DNA.

      • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        29·
        2 个月前

        The actual fuck?

        And what if I go on a hajk for 2 days and stay in some crackhouse without any connection that night? Will it just lock up and not allow me to call for help until i Am vErIfIeD tO cAlL fOr a tAxI? What if I get hurt and have to call someone to pick me up?

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 个月前

      You could just read the article. It is pretty straightforward and doesn’t require any spyware or profiling as others have suggested.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      2 个月前

      Someone tries too many times to unlock it with the wrong pin or pattern; someone tries to factory reset it with the wrong pin or pattern

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      It’s good for the common user who’s happy to use all Google services and can remember (or has written down) their credentials.

      It’s absolutely useless for those out of the Google ecosystem

      It’s annoying through to disastrous for people supporting other peoples’ phones

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      13·
      2 个月前

      Isn’t that the way with almost every tech introduced into phones? “Track your phone while off (for arbitrary unit of time)” = you’re tracked by any Bluetooth beacon networks whether you want to or not. Also, “you’re now part of a beacon network whether you want to or not.”

      Any 911/safety feature is just a reach for more tracking/stalking.

      You get to contribute to traffic and wifi mapping so the company gets free telemetry they can use for whatever they please at the expense of your battery.

      We’ll introduce notifications and then not give the user enough control, so notifications can become malicious nags to get you to look at your phone as often as possible.

      We’ll introduce app stores that become gamified by the app devs, that push updates weekly or more frequently. The changes? Nothing, the dev just wants to reset the ranking of reviews and get the user to notice their app again for more user engagement, meanwhile, burning out your flash with every pointless update.

      Oh, shoot, people are using phones too much, we’ll introduce “night filters” that only partially filter out blue light, and then let you feel ok about using your phone all night instead of sleeping.

      Reckless transmission of telemetry from every app, which often have some blanket permissions to reach into your phone and extrapolate what other apps are there, characteristics of your phone to fingerprint. If you’ve ever used an app tracker blocker like 1Blocker on iOS or NextDNS or DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection on Android, you’ll see some apps are spatic about gathering and transmitting telemetry. (Worse, some just start firing telemetry attempts at insane levels, like thousands an hour, if they can’t connect to the Internet, further depleting your battery.)

      If you ever spin up an OS like Graphene that has all this telemetry junk removed, you’ll be surprised to find out that your phone’s battery can last days. That’s an actual useful powerful feature to have, runtime. And instead of having switches like in iOS to “only charge when you’re charging off green energy” you’re being more green by only having to charge your phone every 3-5 days. The charge/discharge cycles are also reduced, so your battery is now lasting years instead of 12-18 months.

  • absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 个月前

    Smartphones are common targets for thieves because they contain valuable personal data and fetch high prices on second-hand markets. To protect this data, Android includes theft protection features that lock down a stolen phone. While thieves might try wiping phones they intend to sell, Android already has robust protections against unauthorized factory resets. Google announced today that these factory reset protections will become even more powerful later this year.

    Self-contradicting much?

    These justifications are pointless anyway, everybody knows that google and only google has the right to rummage through your data.

    “We will not allow you to reset the data until we can confirm that the data is yours”

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 个月前

      If you want security and at the same time want to be able to identify your device if stolen, just scratch your name into the back. Or paint it with a marker. Or whatever

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    2 个月前

    Only if you’re willing to accept Google spy services and all that shit on AOSP, this stuff doesn’t work.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    2 个月前

    Apple can’t even do that and they have total control of the hardware as the only manufacturer.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      Then your kid has a friend over that sticks a password on it for the lols and doesn’t know what it was