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iPhony
Counterfeit apple technology | |
Small handheld apple products have gained an unprecidented popularity, and in the process, these tiny, mostly white, and mostly anonymous looking devices have developed a growing popularity with criminals.
Various security measures are available for them of course. You can write your name on them,
copy down the serial number somewhere, or download various programs designed to provide security to the machine, but the fact remains that the nature of these devices as highly portable, largely anonymous looking, and highly valuable recreation devices makes them easy to steal, and just as easy to sell elsewhere.
The point of theft is the time when a criminal is least secure in their effort. By mass producing iPhonies, criminals will be flooded with piles of devices which look and feel just like the real thing, but rather than complicated circuitry, and internal batteries, these devices will contain no special features.
iPhonies will be weighted, colored, and constructed to exactly resemble actual iPods, iPhones, and whatever else iApple iNC. is putting out these days. Basic models will include dye markers and an RFID inside them in place of complicated electronics. Advanced models may include GPS, hardware designed to notify the police when plugged in to a computer, and things of that nature.
Only advanced customers who can remember not to plug in advanced models will be able to purchase these more complicated iPhonies.
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//these devices will contain no special features.// Tagline? |
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This I don't get. These dummy items are
meant to function like the real thing? If
not, it will only take the theif a moment to
work out that they are dummies. |
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So, they have to be functional devices, but
supplemented with some kind of tracking
system? |
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No, they are intended to be blank, nonfunctioning devices, or at most to have only one song on them. Yes, theives will be able to tell that they are fake, but who wants to hang around the car they just broke into to make sure the iPod they found inside contains actual songs or not? |
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So the idea is to litter your car and clutter your backpack with fake items, to act as decoys? |
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Wouldn't this result in the occasional broken side window that wouldn't have otherwise occurred, coupled with the ongoing frustration of being surrounded by a plethora of non-functional devices that look just like your sole functional one? |
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True, but decoys, like the real item, should be kept out of sight. Most burglars will hop into a car, open the glove box, and take the iPod they find there rather than... fublimng around under the front seat, for example. |
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Using a plethora of such devices is not very likely, but one or two in the home, dorm room, car, etc. might be reasonable. The real one would likely be kept with you, marked with your name, put in a protective case, etc. to help remember which is which. |
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i keep a loaded bear trap under my seat. :) (just ask Willie "three sticky fingers" Jackson) |
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