One of the people at Gizmodo (Nick Denton? memory fails right now) even admitted it was stolen Brian Lam, Editorial Director for Gizmodo, in reply to Bruce Sew

One of the people at Gizmodo (Nick Denton? memory fails right now) even admitted it was stolen Brian Lam, Editorial Director for Gizmodo, in reply to Bruce Sewell, Apple General Counsel: Bruce, thanks. Here's Jason Chen, who has the iPhone. And here's his address. You two should coordinate a time. [Blah Blah Blah Address] Happy to have you pick this thing up. Was burning a hole in our pockets. Just so you know, we didn't know this was stolen [as they might have claimed. meaning, real and truly from Apple. It was found, and to be of unproven origin] when we bought it. Now that we definitely know it's not some knockoff, and it really is Apple's, I'm happy to see it returned to its rightful owner. P.S. I hope you take it easy on the kid who lost it. I don't think he loves anything more than Apple. -- http://gizmodo.com/5520479/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back http://gizmodo.com/5520479/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-i... The after-the-fact editing was the insertion of the portion in brackets, inclusive.