$1.5M in iPad minis stolen from JFK airport in 'GoodFellas' style heist - Page 2

That isn't gray- that's black.  If you knowingly buy/receive stolen- you're 100% at blame and absolutely part of the problem.

 

If you buy something for a good price, that's relative and to be taken on a case by case.  But to never buy anything on Craigslist or eBay because of the <1% chance something is stolen is a pretty simplistic statement- That was Satorical's statement- not yours btw. :)

True but he was also correct.  DeNiro says it in Raging Bull as he's quoting the scene Brando did from On the Waterfront.

 

This was DeNiro's finest acting IMO.  Great movie... really felt sad for that Jake LaMotta.. couldn't get out of his own way.

No it was like 5 cents. It was just an insult.

 

It's Number 15 at IMDB (which doesn't take into account guy-ness).

I think they'll probably go to Russia, Eastern Europe or South America.

Forget about when will we find a bunch of Minis on Craig's List.  When will we find a bunch of guys in freezer trucks and behind the wheel of a new Caddy?

In related news, exactly no Microsoft Surface tablets have been stolen since the device was released.  Microsoft is reported to be considering offering would-be thieves a free Microsoft Zune and a free Microsoft Kin in exchange for stealing a Microsoft Surface tablet, but so far the Redmond giant has been unable to attract any criminals to their new device.

You've never heard of jailbroken phones and tablets?

It's possible to use one of these without ever connecting to Apple's servers.

 

"Barely 48 hours after this offer, employees at Microsoft headquarters were baffled by the sudden appearance of ten shipping crates in the parking lot at Redmond. When opened, the crates contained thousands of Microsoft Surface tablets. The serial numbers on these tablets were not slated to be used for years.

 

It seems that criminals have responded so poorly to the launch of the Surface that they have somehow manufactured extra tablets and returned them TO Microsoft."

Someone or group of guys got desperate and need to get money for Hurricane/ Super storm Sandy Damage?

The policy of charging the family for the bullet used to execute an "enemy of the state" was adopted by the Chinese from Soviet practice.

 

The Nazis may have done the same, but I'm not positive I recall that correctly.

Apple will NOT block/deactivate the minis. And whoever buys them will have no issues getting it to work. Apple does not implement a system to recover the devices after they have been sold to potential buyers. Their security infrastructure is depends on theft prevention. After that, its up to 3rd party/contracted security to recover the items before sold. This used to be a part of Tim Cook's responsibility before assuming CEO.

You wouldn't happen to know where the sale will be? Back ally or China?

LOL at pic. "Based on a true story."

Does this mean that Scorsese will not be invited to appear in another commercial for Apple?

... which is what I am, let's face it.

Insurance write-off for the shipping company that lost them. I'd rather they do this than rob iPad owners at gunpoint.

Oh well, consider the stolen units as "Sold" to the insurance company of the transport company.

Time will tell.

Selling them domestically would leave to many trails pointing back to the thieves. I would imagine they'll be reboxed and sold overseas where then they'd be sold globally, including back into the US through ebay like outlets.

 

Apple knows all 3,600 IMEI / MEID numbers of the stolen minis (if they were LTE models.)  Thus, they could blacklist them and prevent them from working on any carrier's network.

 

But not before they are set into Lost Mode by the Find my iPad feature of iOS 6.  In Lost Mode, the rightful owner of each stolen iPad mini can set its passcode remotely.  Or, in this case, Apple can set the passcode remotely.  Soon after the stolen minis are turned on, they'll become unusable.

 

(And the thought of a low-speed forklift chase, through an airport, just seems so weird.)

 

These thieves are so sophisticated that they probably took pre-orders before the heist. 

In addition to smartphones and tablets that are "shipped" v. "sold", we will now have to debate the "stolen" category. I am willing to bet that Apple leads this one.
 

Not true.

 

Oh hey, that one's easy. Don't you know, take some sandpaper and just shave 'em off! Bada bing!

There is also the resold category which I'm sure Apple leads as well. I just sold my MBP to a friend today. I always keep the packaging for all my Apple products just for that reason. He bought my MBP for his 7 year old son's Christmas gift. It looks absolutely pristine with all the cable ties and plastic packaging for the adapters, etc. His son will not be disappointed. It looks like brand new.

Ouch!  I knew that life in China is ugly and mostly unfair, but that is just tyranical

at that time.

Since then, there are other robberies with far greater amount of cash stolen.

Apple operates one of the most sophisticated stock control, year-round volume shipping and distribution channels the world has seen.

Of course they know where they are now....and also how they are travelling, the speed they are travelling at, their altitude and ambient temperature. GPS trackers in every crate are commonplace for high value goods. There is control at every point in the chain and you get a subset of the data to help you track your purchase.

Hasn't anybody else heard of 'manager's specials'? - they come fully charged and activated, sometimes containing just a phone with gps. It's so easy to do and a regular part of control and security.

Will Apple cripple them 'if' they can? Hmmmn ...my bad PR sensor just lit up

And they're gonna have supply chain problems because they only got 2 of the 5 pallets

Cost to the State. It does make sense. Why would the People (citizens from the People's Republic of China) bear the cost of even a bullet, if it is the (purported) Professor's fault if he had to be executed, after all?

 

It's in the end an age-old debate: when does it become "normal" that the Community pays for an Individual's costs? Cultures solve that differently, communist countries, Europe and America all have differing methods.

How is it not unfair that Goldman-Sachs is still allowed to operate? How is it not unfair that Bush is still free? How is it not unfair that Bhopal did not cause high-ranking US executives to spend the rest of their lives in prison? How is it not unfair that Monsanto still operates? How is it not unfair that Exxon still operates?  I could easily go on.

 

Don't make me laugh. America enjoys a much higher level of freedom, but fairness doesn't exist there either. For the costs that humans have paid to offset the environmental, social, and financial costs of US big business and strategic requirements of the United States of America, you could buy a tremendous amount of chinese bullets. That is just as tyranical, only less direct.

Old, joke,.  Heard this 20 years ago.

 

Is true. This is not the first time brand new sealed iPads with GPS have been stolen.  And none have been recovered using the iPads features. Opened and registered devices are a different story..and are only recovered if stolen AFTER registration.  Please feel free to prove otherwise.

Yeah, less than 4,000 units really put Apple behind

 

You have to set all that up after you turn on the computer. It's not just magically working anymore than "Find My" works before an iOS device is turned on. 

 

And no, Apple doesn't know where every serial number is. The best they might know is that a certain number was sold to Best Buy but after that, who knows until it is sold and even then outside of perhaps the store of purchases, they know nothing. They can't thanks to various privacy laws. They are only able to have the whole Find My system because it is opt in by user choice and only the user can track the device. Even those federal laws about how cell companies have to be able to track any active cellular device don't help Apple since they wouldn't be issued the search warrant needed to look for an item (and it would have to be activated on a cell data network for that system to work anyway). 

Off topic: I find it odd that iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, iPad minis, and Macs can all be tracked but they still call the service Find My iPhone.

 

However, if they can't prove proof of purchase from a valid retailer they will be SOL if the dang things are defective. Because they won't be in Apple's warranty system. 

 

So in that way these folks will be dinged for their purchase. 

 

Nope. Lost Mode can't be turned on until there is an iCloud account signed into on the iPads which happens when you turn it on. And Apple would have to know the ID and password of said account which they don't. 

 

True Story: The real reason Forstall was fired wasn't cause of the massive list of bugs in iOS 6, the maps thing or even how he was a raging douchebag with no respect for anyone in the company. Nope, Tim fired him for proposing that they change the service to "Find My Shit"