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Because that real phone number is tied to an imei number which can be used to track your historical and real time location from teleco data



And yet it is 'impossible' to police to recover stolen iPhone.


It’s entirely possible. They just don’t care.


Unrelated. Tracking data is service-side, not secret to the phone.




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