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Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod
I also wanted to address the gas station comment. Gas stations do not inherently check your VIN number as a normal part of doing business with you. The iPhone/iPod is automatically exchanging information with Apple's computers as a normal part of doing business with us. It is not asking much to do a little check to help out some loyal customers.— November 11, 2009 9:18 a.m.
Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod
My wife's iPod was stolen at the gym in UT. I hate thieves and would love to see this a**hole get it good. Apple can track stolen iPods. I saw a show with Chris Hansen where they purposely had several iPods stolen and tracked by Apple to find the thieves so he could confront them. He also said on his show that they won't just do it for anybody. I am a computer programmer. It would be very easy for Apple to correlate a stolen iPod serial number to the new location of where it is being used. Privacy advocates don't have anything to worry about because it would only involve searching on stolen iPods that have been reported to Apple. It is very easy as follows with psuedo code: iPod connected to system theft_check() theft_check() { get serialnnum if (serialnum in list of stolen serialnums) { get ipaddress of current location email original owner who reported their iPod stolen with ipaddress and other information of thief } } That's all there is to it. The owner can then go to the police with the information and get their iPod back. To do this would take less than 100 lines of code, and the fact that Apple was able to do it for Chris Hansen shows that they know all of the data points they need to put this together. I bet that this would significantly reduce iPod theft in the first place... just knowing that it is being tracked and people are being busted. To do nothing is irresponsible when you have the means.— November 11, 2009 8:53 a.m.