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Offline Magus

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Cell phone theif
« on: October 29, 2008, 09:24:29 AM »
Man steals cell phone. Takes a picture of himself with it. Dumbass.
http://www.wkfs.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119585&article=4478240
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Re: Cell phone theif
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2008, 10:53:59 AM »
I don't know if I buy the way they got the picture... I mean really, they can pinpoint the sim (triangulate the phone) but how does that give them any access to the phone itself? I think perhaps he sent a MMS with his pic and the carrier copied that.

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Re: Cell phone theif
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2008, 01:51:34 PM »
Some phones, such as the Sidekick, sync up everything to an online server.  This is how Paris Hilton's contacts and pictures were found a few years ago.  Maybe it was a phone that worked like that and the writer of the article just didn't know what he was talking about.
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