The 4G iPhone's Finder Reportedly Located

CNET is reporting that investigators have interviewed the person who found the unreleased Apple iPhone and began all the trouble. Wired reports that last week people "identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype." "'Someone came to [the finder's] house and knocked on his door,' the source told Wired.com, speaking on condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation by the police. A roommate answered, but wouldn't let them in. ... News of Apple's lost iPhone prototype hit the Web like a bombshell, but it was apparently an open secret for weeks amongst the finder's roommates and neighbors, where the device was shown around mostly as a curiosity. ... 'There was no effort to keep it secret,' the source said. 'There were a bunch of people who knew.' ... Wired.com received an e-mail March 28 offering access to the device, but did not follow up on the exchange after the tipster made a thinly veiled request for money."

Comments

Re:Far more interesting

[nitehawk214]

Police broke into and searched Gizmodo journalist Jason Chen's home, seizing basically every piece of technology in his home, under an apparently illegal warrant:

The real question is... will Gizmodo still suck Apple's cock after this event?

Re:Sold Stolen Property to Highest Bidder

[trum4n]

They are Apple. What's the point of ANYTHING they do? IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY.

Re:Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants

[lilfields]

They can request searches though, the police aren't going to raid someone's house out of the goodness of their hearts without someone having requested it by filing more than litigation charges. I don't see how finding an iPhone is stealing. I guess I've stolen quite a few pennies and dollar bills over the years from the grasps of the sidewalk. The fact that people are defending Apple's retarded actions is more appalling than anyone's lack of knowledge.

Re:Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants

[Maxmin]

Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants. Apple can't charge or prosecute anyone for a crime.

Christ, is grammar flaming coming back? Sigh.. that's so 1990s, can't believe this got modded up.

Of course Apple is not a prosecuting agency (as the GP author no doubt understands), but you can be sure that state/county prosecutors are real tight with Apple's attorneys.

Apple have sworn out *many* complaints against bloggers and websites in the past, and will very likely continue to do so. That they don't "charge or prosecute" anyone doesn't discount the fact that they do in fact cause such actions to be taken on their behalf.

The lack of even the most basic knowledge of how our system of justice works is just appalling.

Nice pomposity there, newfag.