Gizmodo editor raided in iPhone 4G saga
p2pnet view p2pnet view Crime:- | P2P:- On the left is Jason Chen, editor of Gizmodo.
Behind him is detective Matthew Broad. With an associate.
Gizmodo last week made the news big-time when it published gory details of Apple’s latest iPhone.
“Gizmodo paid $5K for an Apple iPhone prototype after Gray Powell, a hapless young Apple engineer, got pissed and left it in a bar“, said p2pnet yesterday, wondering, “Does that constitute receiving stolen property?”
Gizmodo had acquired the device from an unnamed person who picked it in the bar.
The site’s owners may have kept the identity of the seller to themselves, but they nonetheless decided it was OK to out the unfortunate Apple engineer.
When it found out its new iPhone was in the hands of an unauthorised person, Apple went bananas, which is no surprise given the company’s psychotic penchant for secrecy.
An investigation was launched and according to Business Insider, Broad, an ex-US Secret Service agent, says his LinkedIn bio, “busted into Gizmodo editor Jason Chen‘s house and seized all his computer equipment”.
On LinkedIn Broad says he’s currently a “Task Force Agent at REACT Task Force” and a “Deputy / Detective at San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office”.
He lists Bloodhound Forensics as “My company” but the website says it’s owned by Susan Broad, “previously a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service”.
Bloodhound says it “will ensure that your digital evidence is properly preserved to ensure that its courtroom value is not diminished or lost.”
It promises, “With prior law enforcement experience, our examiners understand that no stone should be left unturned. At your direction, our examiners will search for any and all evidence that might be applicable to your case. We will tirelessly work with you to locate the evidence that you need.”
Stay tuned.
(Cheers, RW)
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
left it in a bar – Gizmodo IDs guy who lost iPhone 4G, April 20, 2010
p2pnet – Gizmodo in ‘lost’ iPhone police investigation, April 26, 2010
Business Insider – Here’s The Cop Who Broke Into Gizmodo Editor’s House In iPhone Search-And-Seizure, April 26, 2010
tell everyone – ‘Why we outed iPhone 4G guy Gray Powell’: Gizmodo, April 20, 2010
April, 2010
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April 27th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Whew… Ok, this is crazy. I don’t care for Jason as a “journalist” but as far as being right fscking dickheads, Apple et al have set the bar pretty high. Though, I suppose they may be a little upset with Giz forcing them to admit that it is their device.
April 27th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Broad do you know that the raid on Jason Chen was illegal? You moron!
I hope you get prosecuted!
And as far as apple is concern they should be boycotted.
I am sick and tired of all these crappy corporation of parasites.
It is time to go after asocial asshole such as Steve job.
April 28th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
What kills me is Steve would be nowhere now if he hadn’t hacked his way there…. wonder how much he owes the phone company from back in his younger days….!
April 29th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
I find a bit of sad , i dunno,… Irony…? Satire?…. well, at least some kind of Unfortunate Truth in the apt naming of the “REACT” Task Force. Based upon what I have read in recent years, it is becoming a prevalent theory among philosophers and spiritual types that much of what ails mankind throughout history and the root of much mass insanity and dysfunction on both a societal and individual level is our habit of “reacting” to situations by reflex or habit good or bad, as opposed to “intelligently responding” to whatever stimuli, which by contrast necessitates that some kind of thinking process precedes taking any action to ensure that the response is actually appropriate. I find it both fascinating and frustrating that we still have so much grey matter that goes unused despite the disproportionate amount allocated to our particular species. The potential within the human race must truly be astonishing considering we have lasted this long while functioning at such a minimal realization of it overall. It seems that the efforts of just a few individuals at pivotal moments in time have saved all of us from our own stupidity, only to endanger ourselves time and time again. Darwin may have been wrong about fitness being the deciding factor in survival; perhaps it is just a matter of the last one standing having eaten every thing else first.