09-03-2011, 06:52 PM
The story pRICE cUBE linked to has information about a search of a home for the iPhone that the story Jerry linked does not. Seems like a worthwhile follow-up.
Here's another link that talks about the fishiness of the "search of a home" episode:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011...police.php
It may be legal, but I don't like the idea of private detectives working for Apple showing up with San Francisco policemen, giving the home owner the impression that the detectives were policemen and then only the private detectives go into the house. Once in, they then threaten the home owner and his family with bad things if they don't tell them where the phone is. :bs: Of course, the homeowner could have refused cooperation, but he thought he was choosing to cooperating with legal authorities not private dicks. That's just not right. If you read the article you'll see there's a lot that sounds not right about what happened.
Here's another link that talks about the fishiness of the "search of a home" episode:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011...police.php
It may be legal, but I don't like the idea of private detectives working for Apple showing up with San Francisco policemen, giving the home owner the impression that the detectives were policemen and then only the private detectives go into the house. Once in, they then threaten the home owner and his family with bad things if they don't tell them where the phone is. :bs: Of course, the homeowner could have refused cooperation, but he thought he was choosing to cooperating with legal authorities not private dicks. That's just not right. If you read the article you'll see there's a lot that sounds not right about what happened.