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[Tex]

re fines and restitution

Restitution is nice, but it's hard to collect $140k from two unemployed twenty-somethings whose job prospects are dimmed by a history of theft from an employer.

Still ... that's a few hundred phones. I wonder what the worst case is on worldwide theft. If I were running things, I'd be curious what techniques exist to ensure production overruns don't occur, to funnel devices into unofficial channel markets. That's a bigger risk, from my standpoint. Unless the hardware manufacturers have no access to the software and packaging ....

Take cae,
--Tex.