I told you a few weeks ago that American authorities are thinking of requiring smartphone manufacturers to automatically activate anti-theft systems from software that allow blocking and locating devices. Without waiting for the imposition of this by the authorities, the company Apple decided to automatically activate Activation Lock in iOS 8, so that all iDevices activated in the new version of the operating system they will need to be logged in cu Apple ID la iCloud and they will have location services turned on.
After months of work with the Secure Our Smartphones Initiative, Apple has taken a significant step forward in our shared effort to make dangerous and often deadly smartphone thefts a thing of the past," said Attorney General Schneiderman. "By being the first manufacturer to make an effective theft deterrent a default setting on new products and making it available to customers using older products Apple is helping ensure the safety and security of their customers. For smartphone theft deterrents to fully work, they need to be widely adopted thereby removing the economic incentive for stealing them in the first place, which is why I strongly encourage consumers to install all available theft deterrent options and why every manufacturer should move as quickly as possible to make similar features a default setting for their products. "
The decision taken by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it has already been praised by the Attorney General of California, he being one of those who requested the implementation of such a measure for mobile terminals. Even if in iOS 8 the function is activated automatically when activating an iDevice, in old versions of iOS it will be necessary to activate it manually from the menu Settings>iCloud>Find My iPhone. The implementation of this measure has the role of significantly reducing the theft of mobile terminals, and this year proved that Find My iPhone was of great help in reducing crime.
