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The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
Where did the IMEI number come from, why is it so freaking long, and why does your phone need it? If you’ve ever wondered, we’ve got you covered.
Its undercover operatives, working out of key cities where central offices form clearing houses for telegraphed reports and tips, are ceaselessly active in running down interstate shipments of stolen automobiles. This can be used to a clever user’s advantage: in the Hackintoshing community, where unauthorized Intel computers are often retrofitted with a copy of MacOS to the apparent disinterest of Apple, your best option to make up a serial code is by basing it off a 2017 iMac Pro, which was a relatively low-volume product that only received one iteration. By the late 1990s, a story reminiscent of an episode of The Wire appeared on the front page of The Baltimore Sun with a direct headline that suggested the wireless employee quoted above was wrong: “Balto.
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