So I’m down here at the mall shopping for Christmas. And I came across a new box in the middle of the mall, and the premise is fairly simple. Dropping your used so phone and get cash. So I think this is probably a very dangerous thing to have around. Imagine a common thief, who can just spend it’s time walking up around the mall pickpocketing people’s cell phones. After punching a phone, he just drops it in the box and gets money. There is no accountability, no checking to see if the phone is stolen or not, and apparently no way to track down who sold the phone. This is really a bad idea. I hope that the people who are interested in deploying this kind of box will think twice about it.
