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If I were a thief, I'd sign up for the service, find the item that's snitching on me, and search it until I found all the devices on it that were broadcasting i
by teachrdan 5y ago
If I were a thief, I'd sign up for the service, find the item that's snitching on me, and search it until I found all the devices on it that were broadcasting its location.
- abraae 5y agoThen the system would have a record that you (the bounty hunter) had had contact with the stolen item (the bike). You might get away with it once or twice but as a habitual thief this creates quite a trail of evidence about you.
- teachrdan 5y agoThe guys described in the article weren't exactly rocket scientists. And the cops only intervened because the tag's alarm was going off right in front of them while the writer showed them the device info on their screen. It's easy to imagine that, if the thief--who may not even be the store owner--had immediately destroyed the tag, the cops would never have intervened and the guy would never have found their scooter.