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That’s a shame. Back when Find My iPhone first launched, my friend used printed screenshots to track his stolen phone moving from the park to another city acros
by 1123581321 4y ago
That’s a shame. Back when Find My iPhone first launched, my friend used printed screenshots to track his stolen phone moving from the park to another city across state lines. Police departments in both cities helped him and coordinated with each other. When the right house was identified, the police didn’t search it, but they accompanied him to the door and asked the phone to be brought out to verify ownership, and the person cooperated. She had bought the phone from the thief and wasn’t prosecuted.
The case in the story is so much simpler and could’ve been handled within half an hour of the initial contact.
- cf100clunk 4y agoIndeed, this situation has clearly been mishandled from the viewpoint of the Macbook's rightful owner, and if we are to take the story as written it seems that the officers involved are not technophiles. This raises the question of whether we are asking too much of them. If so, surely there must be someone on the local force who can be consulted so that technological logjams like this can be quickly broken.