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British gov't plans to ask Apple, Sony for crime-resistant gadgets

Posted Apr 29, 2007 at 8:54AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Tags: apple news, BBC, Reuters, Sony
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Home Secretary John Reid (image from reuters.com) - Image 1Reuters reports that British Home Secretary John Reid is planning to approach Apple and Sony to join a summit that will focus on fighting crime in Britain. Reid wants mobile phone and mp3 player manufacturers to focus as much on security features for their devices as on other design features.

"New technology, lifestyle changes, new commodities and new gadgets mean that the criminals continually move on," Reid told the BBC's Sunday AM program. "So when we defeat them on mobile phones, they move on to Sat-Navs and then on to iPods." Reuters noted that crime figures released last week showed an 8% increase in the number of street robberies in Britain.

"We already have a close working relationship with mobile phone manufacturers," a Home Office spokesman said on Sunday. "John Reid is likely to approach Apple and Sony in the coming weeks to join this summit." The spokesman also added that during the coming week, they will be drawing up a list of other manufacturers to include for the summit.

Via Reuters



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# Huh?Guest 2007-04-29 10:18
What the hell does this mean? What constitutes a "security feature" for an iPod? How does a terrorist USE an iPod, for that matter? (OK, maybe you could record training audio etc. in MP3 format. How in that case could you design an iPod that COULDN'T be used by a terrorist?)

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# you are a moronGuest 2007-04-29 20:28
it has nothing to do with terrorism you retard. it has to do with making some innovative new feture that could prevent some guy from snatching your phone or mp3 player and running when your walking down the sidewalk. not everything is about terrorism. jeez.

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# ITS ABOUT TIME!!Guest 2007-04-30 09:04
I suggested Apple add a passcode lock to the iPod ages ago. It's only natural, it has a dial, use it as one of those dial numeric pad locks.

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