Imagine this. Your phone gets stolen and you report it to the cops. You then get the phone replaced and you go on with life. That’s what happened to Victoria Brodsky. Apparently her Samsung Galaxy S3 and her wallet were stolen at a street festival and she moved on when she got her phone got replaced.
Then this happens according to news.com:
For in her Dropbox she discovered images and footage of a naked couple. Brodsky herself wasn’t a party to this writhing party. The dates on the images suggested that they had been taken between the time her phone had disappeared and a replacement had arrived.
She had, indeed, linked her Galaxy with her Dropbox, and here were images of trouser-dropping carnality from another galaxy.
The lady and gentleman in question look broodily into the camera. As for the videos, Brodsky told the Daily News: “Sex looks very boring in their house.”
That’s right. It appears that the couple have been using the stolen phone which is set to auto load photos to Brodsky’s Dropbox account to shoot some nude selfies. This of course is getting all sorts of attention. Except from the police who will not act on this because she can’t prove that the frolicking couple stole the phone. I find that to be lame because at the very least, they’re in possession of stolen property which the last time I checked was illegal. Hopefully now that this story is going viral on the Internet, the cops will actually do something about this. Or the couple who’s pictures are now all over the Internet have the good sense to turn themselves in…. Assuming someone doesn’t turn them in.
Smartphone Theft Falling Due To “Kill Switches”
Posted in Commentary with tags theft on February 11, 2015 by itnerdGood news. If you have a smartphone you likely have to worry less about it being stolen thanks to “kill switch” technology. That’s the ability for you to remotely “kill” the phone rendering it useless. Thus giving it no value to a thief. A story in Reuters highlights this citing New York, San Francisco, and London and their experience with iPhone thefts as examples:
The number of stolen iPhones dropped by 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York in the 12 months after Apple Inc added a kill switch to its devices in September 2013. In London, smartphone theft dropped by half, according to an announcement by officials in the three cities.
“We have made real progress in tackling the smartphone theft epidemic that was affecting many major cities just two years ago,” said London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Johnson, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman were among numerous officials arguing for new laws mandating the kill switches.
In California, where a law mandating kill switches has yet to go into effect, smartphone theft is dropping because some manufacturers have already started installing the software-based switches on the devices they sell, Gascon said.
“The wireless industry continues to roll out sophisticated new features, but preventing their own customers from being the target of a violent crime is the coolest technology they can bring to market,” Gascon said.
Apple is definitely on the front end of this, but others are catching up. Largely because of laws requiring the implementation of such technology. That in my opinion is going to benefit all smartphone users whether you have a “kill switch” or not. That’s because thieves can’t tell from a distance if your phone has a “kill switch” or not. That makes smartphones as a whole less attractive. Still, you want to have a “kill switch” on your phone so that you can be assured that your personal info is erased should you be unfortunate enough to have your smartphone stolen.
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