> while looking at old photos on his phone with his girlfriend, Randy said about a dozen pictures of two men he’d never seen before appeared in his iCloud folder. The pictures were of two men holding large amounts of cash.
Isn’t there a GPS method of tracking lost and stolen stuff of this kind?
Yes. A couple of years ago my iPad was stolen while I was shopping at a store. Had stupidly set it down for a while, and it disappeared. It was password protected so others couldn't use it. Soon after when I had access to the Internet I used "Find my iPhone" to locate it, and the service showed it moving around the city and settling down at a hotel. I sent messages to it telling the users to return it (messages appear on the otherwise locked screen with a tone sound). Advised the police with this information in my police report. Then fearing for my personal data, I issued remote commands to wipe all my data. Note that you lose the GPS tracking when remotely wiping data (I had given up on getting it back). It must have spooked the thieves, because the iPad was dropped off at the Lost & Found at the local transit department (although a couple weeks transpired). When you do a wipe, the message appearing on the screen is to connect to iTunes. That possibly scared the thieves. When I connected, iTunes did a full restore of my data.
Yes, if the iPad's owner had not been so stupid that he had neglected to put in a passcode. By not putting in a passcode, a smart thief merely starts the iDevice, opens Settings, and turns OFF anything like "FindMyiPhone" etc. Oops. Now the owner can't track it! Nor can he lock it or erase his data! Stupid owner tricks.