The point of anti-theft devices is to keep honest people honest. What that means is it takes away temptation from minor thievery...people just stealing a few things, usually to use themselves. Acquiring a RF activation device would be expensive...you'd have to be stealing for a profit then.
You'll never stop a determined criminal at a retail level...there are and probably always will be too many ways to cheat the system. But you can cut out a majority of the theft by deterring the minor thieves with devices like this.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Of course there's absolutely, positively, NO WAY thieves could ever get hold of the activation stuff. Nope. Never happen.
The point of anti-theft devices is to keep honest people honest. What that means is it takes away temptation from minor thievery...people just stealing a few things, usually to use themselves. Acquiring a RF activation device would be expensive...you'd have to be stealing for a profit then.
You'll never stop a determined criminal at a retail level...there are and probably always will be too many ways to cheat the system. But you can cut out a majority of the theft by deterring the minor thieves with devices like this.