Comment by mschuster91
17 hours ago
> Here is to hoping someone will do something similar for DRM'ed BOSCH ebike motors.
Please not. Bike thieves are already annoying as they are (a ring in the rural city I live in managed to steal over 400 k€ worth of bikes in a matter of months, in my case they only stole the control unit), and so are people modding their bikes to run (way) faster than the legal limit, leading to more and more calls for them being banned off of normal bike tracks.
[1] https://www.idowa.de/regionen/landshut/landkreis-landshut/se...
Is people stealing bikes and parts a technological problem or a people problem?
you could compare with apple locking down iphones and parts, which I understand significantly reduced theft
I seriously doubt any kind of DRM is going to dissuade bike thieves. It hasn't really worked for phones has it?
It has. Yes people still steal iPhones but not even close to levels pre-Activation Lock.
If you can't fence the product then there's no motivation to steal it in the first place.
Naturally, this is why we should add GPS and a network connection to every device in existence. /s