Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief

[hesperus]

Last Saturday, MoDaCo (the world's largest smartphone community) held a get-together for their forum members. Unfortunately the positive community spirit was soured by an individual who decided to steal one of the charity raffle prizes - a C550 mobile phone.

Initially it seemed like there was little I could do to help. The SPV-Services server was not programmed to log the IMEI numbers of it's users. It seemed like a dead end, until I remembered something . . .

http://zone-mr.net/?act=entry&id=36

[warken]

nice, yea like stealing a computer, than loggin onto the companies network you stole it from .. not very smart

[z31200n3]

interesting little read.. and quite funny too :-) What was this guy hoping to accomplish by stealing the phone...simply acquiring a free phone?

-z3

[pakbehl]

That was an interesting read. I could see myself telling that story to my future children to lull them to sleep. I love the moral.