A while back we wrote about Adeona, a free tracking program that could help police locate and recover a stolen laptop. As a bonus, we figured, thieves might be less inclined to steal any laptop, since every laptop they stole could potentially lead police to their doors. Enter Find My iPhone, a new service by Apple that does the same thing for your iPhone. After losing his phone in Chicago, one man recently tracked his phone down personally and confronted the thief, who, shocked at having been found, handed it back with a handshake. [%comments]
LoJack for iPhones
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I agree with 7 & 8. Out country has bred a nation of lambs lined up for slaughter. How else could 19 nutjobs with box-cutters (i.e, not any more dangerous than standard kitchen utensils) take hundreds of people hostage (Flight 93 excepted)?
I am not sure where “4 blocks” comes from, but I can often get an google maps location within about 20-30 feet. depending on where you live, this is enought to pinpoint, say, a suburban home or an urban townhouse. Not much use in a new york city highrise with hundreds of stacked apartments though.
The police would not need to do much work. You could just go to the home where you think the iphone is and call the police (on someone else’s phone) and tell them my phone was stolen, it’s in there – help me out.
#7, I would actually argue that fraud was common back in the wild west days of home financing . . . unfortunately, it was the borrowers who usually lied. lenders face stiff penalties if they are caught lying. borrowers face very few, if any, since the one remedy (calling the loan due) is usually useless since the whole problem is that the borrower has no money or income and lied about it. they don’t call ‘em liar’s loans for nothing. the lenders, though, knew this was going on to some degree and simply didn’t care because they thought the RE market would never go down, or because everybody else was running off the cliff too.