Crime Up, Hope Down.
News from the UK that week on how phone theft is up 80% year on year, so that one is snatched every six minutes from London inhabitants. These lead to criminal charges in just 1% of cases. At the same time online and phone frauds are up by similar degree so that tech leaders are invited to the House of Commons to discuss. There are three conclusions from this, being that (a) politicians are helpless in front of tech leaders in democracies at least (b) security features of devices don't work as well as expected and (c) tech leaders rely on stolen devices to help meet sales targets.