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Jobs' Burglary Manhunt Yields Kenny the Clown
theodp writes "Even in death, Steve Jobs managed to get specialists from the Apple-friendly Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) to team up again with Apple investigators and local police to track down the whereabouts of a stolen Apple device. Unlike a 2010 stolen iPhone prototype incident, which ended with a raid on a Gizmodo editor's home, this new investigation into the $60K burglary of the late Apple CEO's under-renovation Palo Alto home ended with the recapture of an iPad from Kenny the Clown, who accepted the device as payment of a debt owed to him by burglary suspect Kariem McFarlin. PCWorld has the details of how Palo Alto Police, REACT, and Apple investigators connected the dots to track down Jobs' stolen iPads, which may trouble some privacy advocates."
Nothing to see here. Just another Apple "somebody style our prototype" marketing campaign.
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Cost of items lost: $60000
Cost of replacing them with insurance: $1000 ish
Cost of finding lost items: priceless
Dunno, I can't see any place where they went beyond the law this time. Based on the article, it seems as if they took pains to build a legal case, even to the extent of checking for open APs nearby.
Not sure why, but I've always felt that way. Maybe it has to do with when I was 5 and my father was killed by a clown.
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apple audits network traffic that hit their servers. isn't this taught in MCSE class?
You're spot on. This isn't newsworthy in any way. I seriously wish that Slashdot wouldn't waste time publishing irrelevant crap like this. There are much more important things to be reporting on.
An example of a far more important topic is the ongoing implosion of the GNOME community. Right now there's just one topic about it on the front page. Don't forget that GNOME was, for well over a decade, one of the cornerstones of the open source movement. It's one of the major projects, up there with the Linux kernel, X.org, and GCC. The GNOME collapse is something that Slashdot should be following on an hourly-by-hourly basis. I'd expect at least three to four articles about it per day, until it's resolved. It's something all of us need to discuss, even those of us who may not use GNOME.
Yes, I'm worried about privacy and I do what I can to limit the exposure of my personal information.
But I'd like to point out that the Apple investigators (Apple Cops) did all of the work.
This was a very high profile case.
Normally the cops wouldn't give a shit unless you have kiddie porn, threatened the President or some other terrorist threat.
And one last thing:
Finding only secured Wi-Fi signals, investigators could argue it was being used by the person paying the bill or those with permission.
Gee Mr. Persecutor, I know the router is locked down now, but it was insecure before my brother-in-law pointed it out to me.
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Steve Jobs' home was just the most high profile. isnt this what police supposed to do? catch criminals who rob lots of homes?
So when do *I* get this type of service when my iPad is stolen? Since it is so easy for Apple to cooperate and cough up the info needed to locate the device, why the HELL won't they do it for Joe Consumer? If Apple did this for every stolen iDevice, they would become worthless as theft targets.... hell, they would be come a liability to steal them and try to sell/reuse them.
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Slashdot is only two days behind the news. Usually it's 3-5 days. Good work boys!
Seriously, what is the point of this site? If you can't aggregate news stories in a decent amount of time, you shouldn't be in business.
No, with Steve, anyways, I don't think 'it' is coming up ever again: he may be a stiff but....
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When I read the headline, my mental image was of course of Kenny the Clown moonlighting as a second story man. Now, that would be a surveillance tape I would like to see.
Aside from the issue of allowing the iPad to connect to Apple's servers to wipe and reinstall the OS, he should have realized that the real value of an iPad or Mac from Jobs's home would have been the content of the device. If it turned out to be Jobs's personal device (as opposed to his family's), who knows what might have been on it... design plans for rounded hexagons, or seamless rounded translucent-aluminum dodecahedrons? His family, and the world, may have lost this brilliance forever... like burning Leonardo's notebooks for firewood. I hope they throw the MacBook at this barbarian.
According to Facebook, Kenny the Clown is a "public figure!" Like the mayor of Oakland? I don't know which is worse, the idea of Kenny the Clown as a public figure (see the "KTC in da house!" posting from Aug 5... what a nice guy... trying to take the rap for breaking into the Jobs house), or the idea of Facebook defining who is and is not a public figure.
"To connect with Kenny the Clown, sign up for Facebook today." No need, I'm already signed up for iTunes, and I'm sure they could connect me with Kenny easily.
they locked up Kenny you bastards
Law enforcement needs compatibility for information. It's like when they inserted the 5¼" C64 formatted disks with pirated software on them into their MS-DOS systems and found nothing.
Gee Mr. Persecutor, I know the router is locked down now, but it was insecure before my brother-in-law pointed it out to me.
And then the prosecutor enters Google Street View WiFi logs (date stamped) into evidence revealing the secured status of the AP at the time in question.
Do you really want to risk a perjury charge?
Hell yeah!
More than likely Google didn't capture that data and if they did, they will be deleting it if they have not already.
Of course that's assuming the local prosecutor (more than likely he's technically illiterate) knows anything about that.
Last time I lost an electronic device or had it stolen, the exact same people swung into action and recovered it for me.
Oh wait...what? Nobody did anything at all?
Awwwwww.... :(
Fuck apple.
People whine about progressive taxation, but compare a lost iPhone from Apple with a phone stolen in a "regular" robbery. The poor person gets to give a statement, and if the right serial numbers are turned into the police, he may get a phone call 10 years later, after a trial in which the device was evidence. But Apple makes a phone call, and millions of dollars are spent tracking it.
The rich get special treatment. The rich get protection perks the rest of us don't. Then the rich complain that a poor person in a high-crime area with no police patrols doesn't pay enough taxes, but the rich person in a low-crime area has constant patrols.
The issue here isn't the privacy concerns of your iDevice, but that you are raped by taxes for programs that mainly benefit the rich, while being told that the rich get nothing from the programs because they opt out with private security (though I didn't see any mention of the Apple private security doing the recovery work, that was all government).
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I wish that asshole was still alive so I could kick him in the balls, rip his head off, shit down his neck and shove a Zune up his ass.
Its the only way to be sure they won't spy on you.
That, and every discussion is dominated by wannabe "comedians". Sure wish we could eliminate the Funny mod. Half of every discussion is a series of half-assed wisecracks...
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Calm down Mr. Ballmer...
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