New Bill Would Make It Illegal to Circumvent Phone Registry
Great idea....
But how do you do it? Like any law, enforcement is not the issue. The issue is providing proof that the law has been broken. It's great to propose making something illegal, and assigning a penalty to go with it. People with the knowledge to change the identifying numbers on a device may very well also be smart enough to cover their tracks. If you cannot prove the device is stolen, how do you prove it's been tampered with?
You assume that laws like this are actually intended to fix anything and aren't just political posturing to make it look like congress actually does anything.
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wasted activity
The person has already broke a law by stealing the phone. What real deterent is there for the person to not make the phone usable? I agree with another commentor that it sounds like a move by a politician trying to say "look, I am protecting you". I don't see anything good about this except to add to the number of overlapping laws to increase the appearance of action. Probably easier to just catch the theif and jail them for the actual crime that causes harm.
True, but if the politicians in this country aren't seen proposing laws, then people might just start to wonder where the taxpayers' money is being spent. I agree that it's a futile effort used only to make it seem like they are doing their jobs.
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Well first, Chucky Schumer has never met a camera he has not liked. But on this I agree. But there are laws already about tampering with phones identification. Who's going to get burned, the guy who flashes his Sprints ESN to like VM or whathaveyou...
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Good thing they don't have that down her in SLV I buy phones from everywhere and from any one as long it is a GSM phone fix it or clean it up a little bit and resale it.
But I what I don't get is isn't better just to pay for insurance once a month...
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But I what I don't get is isn't better just to pay for insurance once a month...
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