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Anti-theft kill switches in smartphones just got a little less creepy

Gene Cash Silver badge

Effective?

Now is this an actual lock, or can you get around them by resetting to factory defaults? In my experience, this gets around the Google "lost/locked phone" bit. Is this something more, because my Nexus 6P doesn't have anything better.

What about blacklisting the IMEI?

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