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People keep going to this home looking for their lost phones — and nobody knows why (video)
The Washington Post ^
| January 26, 2016
| By Peter Holley
Posted on 01/27/2016 11:32:57 AM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
What lawsuits are made of...
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:35:57 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Swordmaker
Sounds like this has the makings of a good episode for Supernatural!
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:36:50 AM PST
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: Swordmaker
Some high school kid had a bit of fun.
To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Atlanta, Georgia, couple are repeatedly accused of stealing iPhones, Android phones, and other cellular phones when people track their missing phones to their houses by using their phone tracking software, which insists the missing phone is in their house, but the phones are never there. No one knows WHY their house is a missing cellular device magnet, but the couple is fearful of encountering an irate phone owner who may refuse to accept the explanations, and become violent. -- PING!
YOU HAVE MY PHONE! GIVE IT BACK!
No, I Don't!
Who to believe when your tracking software says yes?
Ping!
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:40:51 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Swordmaker
Saba-that’s the name of the tiny island at the edge of the Caribbean that I keep trying to talk my husband into moving to. But I shouldn’t really be publicising its existance. Couldn’t move yet anyway, don’t think they’d let me bring my 5 dogs :)
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:41:44 AM PST
by
mrsmel
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Swordmaker
Get a gun. Don’t answer the door if you don’t know who it is.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:41:45 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Swordmaker
Being an engineer or a journalist does not mean that one is not a thief!
I would sue. Clearcut case.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:42:27 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:43:47 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Swordmaker
My kid got his phone back by using the location app on his iphone.
“ohh. We just found it. We were going to turn it in.”
Yeah right.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:44:53 AM PST
by
toast
To: Swordmaker
I have to hand it to these homeowners, as my patience would have been exhausted the first time someone showed up at my door and my lawyer would be on the phone the next day. To live with repeated visits and somehow be patient enough to put up with police searches?
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:45:02 AM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Sacajaweau
Nope. It’s bigger than that. Sounds like a triangulation error or last-known wifi connection made. This couple was held outside of their home until the police could decide whether or not to get a search warrant for a missing girl whose phone was “located” at their house.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:45:31 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Sacajaweau; PoloSec
Some high school kid had a bit of fun. If only it were that simple to solve. Apparently it isn't. None of the tech people can quite figure out why the default location in this area defaults to this particular house. Strange.
Sounds like this has the makings of a good episode for Supernatural!
I was thinking it could be the start of a good Science Fiction movie. . .
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:46:02 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Swordmaker
There are no phones here. Who told you to come here?
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:46:18 AM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Swordmaker
“Your house is a crime scene and you two are persons of interest,â€
Officer, am I under arrest?
No?
Thank you, I’ll see you later.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:46:44 AM PST
by
G Larry
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
To: ShadowAce
Ping to technology weirdness.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:47:15 AM PST
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Swordmaker
One possibility: Their address accidentally matches a “place holder” address that was used in some piece of common code during testing and got left in somewhere...
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:50:31 AM PST
by
piytar
(http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
To: Swordmaker
Some jailbreak software for stolen phones is probably attaching their home IP address or GPS location to the phones when someone clicks on “find my iPhone”.
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posted on
01/27/2016 11:52:42 AM PST
by
tbw2
To: BuckeyeTexan
It’s the Bermuda Triangulation subroutine.
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posted on
01/27/2016 12:02:29 PM PST
by
Purdue77
("...shall not be infringed.")
To: Swordmaker
The tracking apps been hacked with a static GPS coordinate.... obviously this house
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posted on
01/27/2016 12:03:51 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriot%s are in rebellion... teach him why)
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