Police Raid Gizmodo Editor's Home Over iPhone 4G

[Marcus Yam]

Gizmodo management says warrant for Jason Chen's house was invalid.

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[filmman03]

seriously? wtf? and the apple employee who left the phone behind doesn't get fired... wow. apple is seriously fucked up.

 

[babybeluga]

Steve Jobs probably pre-raided his house and planted child porn. Apple doesn't play!

 

[Guest]

Of course they were able to raid his house. If he lived in Texas, they would have tripped the automated machine guns and deployment of the rapid wolverines on angel dust. Just sayin.

 

[BoxBabaX]

Ironic considering Gizmodo's apple fanboyism. Steve must be going nuts!

 

[megamanx00]

After he gave back the phone? WTF?

 

[emtownsend]

The judge screwed up and should never have issued that warrant... It was likely done on purpose with knowledge they cannot keep anything, but they will still get the info they want. Sneaky and not right. Let us know what happens!

 

[Guest]

Does this mean every place that reported about the iphone 4G is going to be subjected to a raid?

 

[Guest]

this shows the type of company that apple is. a subversive and evil company that will manipulate the facts to further themselves. they probably influenced the judge somehow. heck the guy returned the damn phone.

 

[toastninja17]

This is seriously taking things too far...WTF.

 

[Ramar]

Can't there be a single country where the government doesn't abuse people? Was there ANY reason to take his computers?

 

[micky_lund]

apple.
LOL

 

[nforce4max]

KGB gestapo police serving their masters at Apple...........The empire strikes back.

 

[gm0n3y]

I'm pretty sure this is all legal. Apple is claiming that the phone was stolen and that Gizmodo knowingly bought stolen property. Whether this is true or not will come out later, and possibly lead to charges.

What surprised me here is that Apple would do this at all. There is no upside. They already got the device back, damage has been done, all this will do is piss off a lot of enthusiasts. Bad PR in effect here.

 

[truehighroller]

I'm smelling a revolution getting closer and closer every day.

 

[Guest]

I hope Google wins out in the Smart Devices race. Apple's head is getting too big. This is beyond ridiculous.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I'm pretty sure this is all legal. Apple is claiming that the phone was stolen and that Gizmodo knowingly bought stolen property. Whether this is true or not will come out later, and possibly lead to charges.[/citation]

To further elaborate:

If I steal at TV from BestBuy and tell you that I have a stolen TV for sale, then you buy it from me, this is illegal and you could get charged for this.

The questions here are 1) was this iPhone stolen or just found (and depending on California law, you may have to report a 'found' device, selling it without reporting may be illegal) and 2) did Gizmodo know that the device was stolen when they bought it.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

There are bit and pieces of information that are missing. Would like to see how this plays out.

 

[Hatchet]

Holy fk. Totally unexpected. This is big.

 

[Guest]

Wow! what a waste of taxpayer money. No more fee press huh? I thought Apple sucked before.