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Apple, Google Pressed by N.Y. Over Handheld Device Thefts

Hard to tell which is dumber: the article or New York’s Attorney General.

It sure sounds like he’s not going to be happy until every smartphone is a remote detonation device. And if that happened, he’d probably sue the companies for making weapons of mass destruction. 

laughingsquid:

Dead Giveaway, Interview With Cleveland Hero Charles Ramsey Remixed by The Gregory Brothers

So good.

Chasing Down a GPS Blip to a Stolen iPhone

Michael Wilson:

Onward the officer drove, around cars beneath the subway tracks, like Gene Hackman’s character, Detective Popeye Doyle, in “The French Connection.” Of course, Popeye was after a cop-killing henchman for a drug smuggler, while Officer Hamid was chasing a teenager who had stolen a woman’s iPhone. But, as they say, the city has changed.

The Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market

Gerry Smith reporting on the undercover cops in San Francisco using iPhones to lure would-be criminals:

As the officers stand up and head for their squad cars, Garrity issues one last order: “Try not to lose the fucking phones!”

Crazy:

Given that nearly half of San Francisco residents own an iPhone — the highest rate of any city in the nation — this stolen phone bazaar amounts to a crucial conduit in an illicit, increasingly global trade.

Crazier:

Nearly half of all robberies in San Francisco last year involved smartphones, according to police.

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buzzfeed:

Yeah, this checks out.

Science!

Ocean's 14

Kim Zetter of Wired:

According to authorities, accomplices gained remote access to the casino’s state-of-the-art, high-resolution cameras to spy on card hands being played by the house and other guests in the casino’s VIP high-roller’s room, and fed the gambler signals based on the cards his opponents held.

The take? $33 million.

A Smartphone So Tempting That Even Its Thief Was Robbed

If iPhone demand is down, no one has told the thief community yet…

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stoweboyd:

Burglars break into Microsoft campus, steal iPads, but ‘no Microsoft products were reported stolen’ (via 9to5 Mac)

Story of our time.

If you just took away the jump in Apple, we’d be down for the year.

Marc La Vorgna, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press secretary on the the city’s surge in crime this past year.

Demand for Apple products is coming from all corners. Unfortunately, it seems.