How the Internet Helped Find a Journalist's Stolen iPhone

[JMcEntegart]

When David Pogue lost his phone, he turned to 1.4 million Twitter users to help him find it.

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[Ciuy]

If it was actually stolen, just shut it down and go reset it with iTunes...bang, the phone is yours.
Iphones are the easiest to break.

 

[DroKing]

How can that creepy looking dude on the right be a cop? Something is wrong with our society.

 

[HDmac]

[citation][nom]DroKing[/nom]How can that creepy looking dude on the right be a cop? Something is wrong with our society.[/citation]

Are you saying people should or should not be police based on looks alone? You are a shallow idiot.

 

[captaincharisma]

now the moralist can get back to hacking into peoples voicemail

 

[varun270588]

fkng zoom ....... why they give this option....

 

[A Bad Day]

When my sister lost her phone, the carrier demanded $10 or $20 to turn on the GPS in order to find her phone. Since when do phones come with deactivated GPS by default?

Anyways, I was half-expecting the police to refuse to investigate due to some bureaucracy red-tape.

 

[kartu]

So, company that is about to announce new product is suddenly misteriously "leaking" and "losing" stuff.

Very convincing story.

 

[zeratul600]

im sorry can you take away the sim card of the phone? or deactivate internet or gps?¿ because that means that you can find your phone, but anyone can find you, and i dont like that!

 

[acerace]

[citation][nom]DroKing[/nom]How can that creepy looking dude on the right be a cop? Something is wrong with our society.[/citation]

It's true then. People are stupid.

 

[Guest]

Great use of the police's time and tax payer money...
/end sarcasm

 

[zoemayne]

title should read "reporter uses her special connections with the police to find her smart phone"

 

[xophaser]

well this is a nice story, but most police dept are under budget and I rather have them going after a criminal then some dude phone demand cops check out a house because of pings. The thing that this might have done is gave the police dept in the area a little nice PR for finding a hipster phone, or solve a larger ring cases of phone theft.

How the phone got from Philly to Maryland is probably a case of iphone theft ring.

 

[Pherule]

"police officer...stating that it would probably be a lot easier to get the phone back (for a multitude of reasons) if Mr. Pogue decided he didn't want to press charges."

Does anyone else find something wrong with this? Is this how the law is carried out in modern society?

Where is the news story for "police recover stolen phone and thief is sentenced to 2 years in prison"? Maybe that doesn't happen any more. Lawlessness continues to rise because there is no real law.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]DroKing[/nom]How can that creepy looking dude on the right be a cop? Something is wrong with our society.[/citation]

Yea there is something wrong with society, idiots like you exist in it.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]zeratul600[/nom]im sorry can you take away the sim card of the phone? or deactivate internet or gps?¿ because that means that you can find your phone, but anyone can find you, and i dont like that![/citation]

THE GREYS AND REPTILLIANS WILL FINE YOUZ!

 

[f-14]

typical f'ing cops trying to get out of doing their job when they don't want to, and only doing their job when it best suits them.
i'd get fired for this kind of job performance.
i'm surprised the FBI wasn't called as this did cross state lines into their jurisdiction.

innocent until proven guilty makes me wonder if this reporter didn't get drunk and hand his phone to some chick and tell her to go into the bathroom and take pictures of her boobs or various other naked pictures like my buddy did last night and never got his phone back!

the gps isn't working on it so my guess is it went down the toilet as i never did see the lass come out of the ladies room with it from where we were sitting.

 

[maddy143ded]

and in another news New York Times journalist David Pogue is the first to get his hands on iphone 5

 

[serendipiti]

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]"police officer...stating that it would probably be a lot easier to get the phone back (for a multitude of reasons) if Mr. Pogue decided he didn't want to press charges."Does anyone else find something wrong with this? Is this how the law is carried out in modern society?Where is the news story for "police recover stolen phone and thief is sentenced to 2 years in prison"? Maybe that doesn't happen any more. Lawlessness continues to rise because there is no real law.[/citation]
Probably.
The problem is reality vs judicial reality: if you present charges you need to be able to demonstrate that in fact that was a thief, not someone who found the phone and was willing to restore it, but forgot to do so... In this case is much simpler do the "trick" (which in fact is not a new strategy where everyone wins a little: the thief dodges the prison, the reporter recovers its phone and the society doesn't need to go behind an expensive procedure for something that in best case could drive to steal judgement).

 

[eddieroolz]

Well we have a potential thief here. Maybe the police department should look into this guy's track record.