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hparadizyesterday at 7:07 PM1 replyview on HN

On top of that a sizable percentage of theft victims don't even bother to report it stolen.


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throwaway27448yesterday at 7:45 PM

You can't activate the hardware with a different ID regardless. It requires the owner to relinquish ownership.

I'm sure this is different with different components of course depending on how granularly apple tracks their hardware—but the whole package certainly can't be activated.