{"id":1143,"date":"2008-12-19T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2008-12-19T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T15:30:47","slug":"moblieme-helps-nab-iphone-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/moblieme-helps-nab-iphone-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"MoblieMe Helps Nab iPhone Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading RISKS Digest<\/a> this morning and came across this little gem from TUAW<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iPhone thief thwarted by MobileMe sync<\/h3>\n

by Brett Terpstra on Dec 17th 2008 at 9:30PM<\/p>\n

To say that MobileMe hasn’t made everyone happy may be a bit of an understatement. We don’t generally hear from the satisfied customers, but we have received a fair amount of email from dissatisfied users of Apple’s “cloud computing” solution. Given the barrage of negativity, it’s nice to hear a positive take now and then. TUAW reader Rob had just the thing …<\/p>\n

While at the dry cleaner one day, Rob’s iPhone was stolen. He immediately chalked it up as gone forever, and proceeded to purchase a brand new one that same evening. It was the next day when unfamiliar contacts began to appear on the new phone. The (not-too-bright) thief was unwittingly supplying him with names and phone numbers of his or her closest friends, via the magic of MobileMe synchronization from the stolen phone to the cloud and eventually to his new phone. “It didn’t take long for me to realize that MobileMe was leading me right to the thief!” wrote Rob.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank God for stupid criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading RISKS Digest this morning and came across this little gem from TUAW: iPhone thief thwarted by MobileMe sync by Brett Terpstra on Dec 17th 2008 at 9:30PM To say that MobileMe hasn’t made everyone happy may be a bit of an understatement. 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