> They receive shipments of 1000s from corps, who don't bother to remove the ownership.
They received shipments that the corporations thought were /destroyed/, likely legally required for compliance purposes, and they are participating in a fraud that violates compliance regulations by attempting to recycle rather than destroy these systems. The reason they don't want to contact the corporations to remove the activation lock is because the company doesn't know the systems were not destroyed, which is a quote from the person interviewed, in the fine article, which I read and clearly comprehended more than you.
This is a business participating in fraud and assisting people who steal electronics and they are upset that their business model has been disrupted. Good. Fuck them.
Also from the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article."
They received shipments that the corporations thought were /destroyed/, likely legally required for compliance purposes, and they are participating in a fraud that violates compliance regulations by attempting to recycle rather than destroy these systems. The reason they don't want to contact the corporations to remove the activation lock is because the company doesn't know the systems were not destroyed, which is a quote from the person interviewed, in the fine article, which I read and clearly comprehended more than you.
This is a business participating in fraud and assisting people who steal electronics and they are upset that their business model has been disrupted. Good. Fuck them.
Also from the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article."
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html