Stealing an iPod will be useless
To steal is a very bad occupation. And in the case of future versions of the iPod - also completely useless. And all because the craftsmen from Apple intend to build in a future player model a special system that turns a stolen iPod into a piece of plastic in just a few hours.
The solution is unexpected and at the same time very elegant: cut off the battery access to electricity, if the player was connected to an unauthorized computer. In other words, being only once connected to a PC that has no relation to the true owner, the stolen device simply refuses to charge. Forever and ever. A full description of this technology is present in the application , which Apple employees have already sent to the US patent office. Well, I will limit myself to a brief retelling of its content.
So, as you know, in any electronic device that has the ability to be powered from the network, there is a power controller, which determines the presence of an external power source and controls the process of charging batteries. Apple, in turn, decided to add another controller to this case, which is activated only if the player was connected to another PC. When connected to a computer, the iPod checks the device code with a specific list and, in the event of a mismatch, cuts the same protective circuit to prevent further charging. A similar system, by the way, is already used in current iPod models, but it concerns only the synchronization of the contents of the memory with the music library.
Obviously, if the Apple initiative is effective, such systems have a chance to appear in other portable devices. It remains only to teach the anti-theft system to send an e-mail with the coordinates of the very "undesirable" computer.
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The solution is unexpected and at the same time very elegant: cut off the battery access to electricity, if the player was connected to an unauthorized computer. In other words, being only once connected to a PC that has no relation to the true owner, the stolen device simply refuses to charge. Forever and ever. A full description of this technology is present in the application , which Apple employees have already sent to the US patent office. Well, I will limit myself to a brief retelling of its content.
So, as you know, in any electronic device that has the ability to be powered from the network, there is a power controller, which determines the presence of an external power source and controls the process of charging batteries. Apple, in turn, decided to add another controller to this case, which is activated only if the player was connected to another PC. When connected to a computer, the iPod checks the device code with a specific list and, in the event of a mismatch, cuts the same protective circuit to prevent further charging. A similar system, by the way, is already used in current iPod models, but it concerns only the synchronization of the contents of the memory with the music library.
Obviously, if the Apple initiative is effective, such systems have a chance to appear in other portable devices. It remains only to teach the anti-theft system to send an e-mail with the coordinates of the very "undesirable" computer.
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via PC Pro
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/12669/
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