纽约旧金山呼吁手机制造商加强防盗功能

发布时间：2020-06-29 19:32:53 阅读：次来源：气瓶厂家

元器件交易网讯 7月22日消息，据外媒BBC报道，为了遏制全球手机盗窃犯罪行为的滋长，在纽约和旧金山有关部门将对苹果iPhone 5和三星Galaxy S4等其他厂商手机防盗功能进行测试。

世界各大城市已经呼吁生产商采取更多举措来阻止手机盗窃。

伦敦市长鲍里斯?约翰逊已经写信给苹果三星公司说他们必须“认真对待这个问题”。

上个月科技公司会议代表讨论了此事。美国联邦贸易委员会的数据显示，全国将近三分之一的抢劫案涉及到手机。

在纽约，几乎40%的盗窃案是手机盗窃，手机盗窃如此普遍以至于被警察称为“摘苹果”。

伦敦手机盗窃日益严重令人不安，市政府称，75%的盗窃者盗窃偷过手机，一月将近1万部。

这些公司已经提供了打击盗窃行为的解决方案。

苹果的激活锁是将受到密切关注，它将是下一代iPhone和iPad主要的软件更新。

小偷会经常关闭电话以防被跟踪。激活锁的目的是使它关闭后难以重新激活，因为它需要最初注册手机时的登录密码。

对三星和其他手机，检察官将在安全专家的帮助下测试盗窃恢复系统Lojack。检察官在纽约和旧金山在一个联合声明中表示,“我们并不是完全相信他们的话,今天我们将评估他们提交的方案，看他们的方案是否能与盗窃者的普通伎俩抗衡。”

（元器件交易网董蕾译）

外媒原文如下：

Phone anti-theft put through paces in New York and San Francisco

Prosecutors will test measures on Apple"s iPhone 5 and Samsung"s Galaxy S4 to measure effectiveness against common tactics used by thieves.

Various cities across the world have called on manufacturers to do more to deter phone theft.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has written to firms saying they must "take this issue seriously".

In a letter to Apple, Samsung, Google and other mobile makers, Mr Johnson wrote: "If we are to deter theft and help prevent crimes that victimise your customers and the residents and visitors to our city, we need meaningful engagement from business and a clear demonstration that your company is serious about your corporate responsibility to help solve this problem."

Kill switch

Prosecutors in the US are following a similar line - last month meeting representatives from the technology firms to discuss the matter.

They are calling for a "kill switch", a method of rendering a handset completely useless if it is stolen, rendering a theft pointless.

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We are not going to take them at their word”

US authorities

Statistics from the US Federal Trade Commission suggest that almost one in three robberies nationwide involves the theft of a mobile phone.

In New York, 40% of robberies are phone thefts - a crime so common it has been dubbed "Apple-picking" by police.

London has seen a "troubling" rise in mobile phone theft, the mayor"s office said, with 75% of all "theft from person" offences involving a phone - 10,000 handsets a month.

Close scrutiny

The firms have offered theft solutions to help combat the problem.

Apple"s Activation Lock - which will be part of the next major iPhone and iPad software update - is to come under close scrutiny.

Thieves will often deactivate a phone immediately to stop it being tracked after a theft. Activation Lock is designed to make it harder to then reactivate, as it requires the entry of the log-in details used to register the phone originally.

For Samsung and other handsets, prosecutors, aided by security professionals, will be testing theft recovery system Lojack.

"We are not going to take them at their word," the prosecutors in New York and San Francisco said in a joint statement.

"Today we will assess the solutions they are proposing and see if they stand up to the tactics commonly employed by thieves."