Activation Lock in iOS 7 is a cautious optimism among US officials

One of the new features of iOS 7, presented by Craig Federighi (Craig Federighi) during the main presentation at the World Conference of Apple developers began Function Activation Lock, which is aimed at reducing the attractiveness of Apple devices for thieves: stolen phone can not be activated by the new user.

Federighi confident in the reliability of a new feature: "There is a feature that I want to talk in more detail. This Activation Lock. Hundreds of millions of times Find My iPhone was used not only to find a phone that is forgotten on the couch or in Starbucks, but in case it is stolen. Now, thanks to the Activation Lock, if a thief tries to disable Find My iPhone or even erase all information from your phone, it will not be able to re-activate the gadget without knowing your user name and password iCloud. We believe that this is a good scare away thieves. "

Activation Lock was announced just a few days before the summit, planned Attorney General of the State of New York on behalf of Eric Schneiderman (Eric Schneiderman) and District Attorney San Francisco named George Gascon (George Gascon), where officials met with representatives of Apple, Google, Samsung and the Microsoft, to discuss issues related to the theft of mobile devices. officials

stimulated manufacturers and operators to seek ways to block stolen devices in hopes of making them less attractive to thieves.

how the Associated Press, Schneiderman and Gascon commented on the new solution from Apple, saying that expressed "cautious optimism about the announcement of" waiting more information on how this works: "We are grateful for the Apple step towards solving the problem of thefts smartphones. We reserve the decision to activate the lock function as long as we can not understand its actual functionality. We hope that the mobile phone industry has a stable technology, free to consumers, which make phone inoperative after the theft, even if the SIM-card is removed, the device is turned off or modified thief. "