> MPs have argued, for example, that Apple could easily undermine the business model of phone-snatchers by introducing a “kill switch”, but it won’t because of “strong commercial incentives”.

MPs are stupid then. Which thankfully this article points out. Apple (and I assume Android) already allow for remote bricking/locking of your devices. Apple won't let you disable Find My or other security measures without your passcode and Apple has a way to disable turning off Find My if you aren't home/normal location (so if someone snatches your phone while you are out and they also shoulder-surfed your passcode they still can't disable it).

I have no clue what "strong commercial incentives" these MPs are referring to but I assume it's just general (tech or otherwise) incompetency of elected officials.

That's interesting, but really broad. Does anyone have anything that goes into the technical details of these new techniques? I'm interested in these "£20k devices": what they do, how, and who makes, sells, and maintains them.

one example is CAN injection https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

Here they hook into the CAN bus directly from the outside.