SA thief caught using Apple tech

I had my S3 returned to me by Singapore cops after using Avaast Mobile Security to track it down and lock it. This sort of tech rocks, and if you have a rooted S3 it makes it even better...
 
rpm said:
Now this is interesting. It would have been cool to see how it changed hand to arrive in Tanzania.
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I was thinking the same thing. ;)

Remind your guys to never to leave anything in their cars. This happened almost right outside your offices.

Hopefully this was the same thief that got caught when he tried to steal something from a relative's car.
 
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Some people take pics with their iPads of the perp too. That would have rocked with the Tanzanian thing.. maybe have an app take random pics every few hours and upload to a dropbox :P
 
Has anybody ever seen a story of an Android device being recovered thanks to security software on the phone? I know that some apps supposedly provide this but I'm yet to see a story.
 
krycor said:
Some people take pics with their iPads of the perp too. That would have rocked with the Tanzanian thing.. maybe have an app take random pics every few hours and upload to a dropbox :P
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That would have been cool, yes, but you need it to be connected to the Internet to do that. In Africa Internet connectivity is very sporadic, and after I locked the iPad down, it was never connected to the Internet again.

Guess the e-mail that I sent them made them nervous. :whistle:
 
oronte said:
Samsung have had the same technology available on all their high end phones since the Galaxy S2 (remote tracker), but let's pretend that Apple where the first to come up with this technology.
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I've used "Find My iPhone" with my old iPhone 3 in 2008. I believe the Samsung Galaxy S2 was only release in 2011?
 
Fudzy said:
Has anybody ever seen a story of an Android device being recovered thanks to security software on the phone? I know that some apps supposedly provide this but I'm yet to see a story.
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I believe thiefs are under the impression that Apple products are 'cool' and resells easily to unsuspecting buyers.
 
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R120k electronics. The guy must be a Vodacom executive. :)
 
Friend of ours got mugged in Joburg (Sandton) late last year while walking home from the Gautrain Station.
He also got the cops and they ended up chasing the thieves through the streets in a coordinated response of multiple police vehicles.

He got most of his stuff back, and the police seemed to enjoy the whole real-time-crook-tracking experience too. You can read his entire story on his blog.
 
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DJ... said:
I had my S3 returned to me by Singapore cops after using Avaast Mobile Security to track it down and lock it. This sort of tech rocks, and if you have a rooted S3 it makes it even better...
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That is amazing, mostly because the cops returned it. Here they would have just kept it for themselves after recovering it!
 
Head this story so many times about apple products! unfortuantely haven't heard any stories about android yet. However, if your phone gets stolen by an organised criminal it will generally get switched off immediately and then shipped to another African country which makes getting it back close to impossible
 
SAdata said:
Head this story so many times about apple products! unfortuantely haven't heard any stories about android yet. However, if your phone gets stolen by an organised criminal it will generally get switched off immediately and then shipped to another African country which makes getting it back close to impossible
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Um, I posted an Android example in this very thread...
 
and the guy was released on bail the next day......
 
oronte said:
Samsung have had the same technology available on all their high end phones since the Galaxy S2 (remote tracker), but let's pretend that Apple where the first to come up with this technology.
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I knew somebody would make this into a Samsung : Apple thing.
The story is that they used such tracking technology to catch a crook.

For the sake of silly correctness though Apple launched a free, Find My iPhone Service in November 2010 (for iPhone 4, iPad and iPod. I think it was out earlier than that but not free.)

... before the launch of the Samsung S2 in May 2011.

But I am sure someone else did it earlier.

Its not about first. Its about something working.
And both Samsung and Apples things work
 
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