True. Allowing allowing a warrantless search is never in your best interest. If we made it illegal for police to even ask, this things would be much easier to sort out.
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Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?
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True. Allowing allowing a warrantless search is never in your best interest. If we made it illegal for police to even ask, this things would be much easier to sort out.
I agree, that is what he said. I assume the 6 people will claim something different..
This is one of the most surreal tech stories I've ever read. 
Great coverage so far Arn & team. Interesting to see what happens with this.
Great coverage so far Arn & team. Interesting to see what happens with this.
While that scene was funny, it's not what I was going for.
You don't really "retire" from law enforcement by the time your 26. Unless you're injured in the line of duty.
26 year old RETIRED law enforcement professional??
Umm, hey Tony...I don't think "retired" was the word you were looking for.
I believe it was 26-year retired law enforcement professional. Not 26-year-old. As in, served for 26 years in that role.
Ah, you just beat me to it. Exactly. If you had stolen the phone (and it was there in your apartment) or you had NOT stolen the phone (and it WASN'T in your apartment) you should not allow a search without a warrant. People think, "welp...got nothing to hide so why not?". Or "if I say yes to a search, they'll figure I've got nothing to hide and go away".
Whoa, tone it down lol We're assuming this guy told the truth when he told the media that they claimed to be SFPD.
All conjecture.
And in response to civil liberties, etc. etc., that's bs if the guy said they could come in.
Very bad optics! Hope we get more information about this from Apple. A little transparency in this case could alleviate a lot of concerns about Apple's behavior in this matter.
So far we have the word of one guy we know nothing about. Outrage might be a tad pre-mature. If there is some evidence that six Apple employees represented themselves as members of the San Francisco PD, I promise to be outraged with you.
Some creep? That's Michael Jackson!
And Michael Jackson is (er, was) a creep. It's a completely accurate statement.
That could be true but there are what, 30,000 Apple employees? How many have access to the prototype iPhones? How do they prevent their friends and loved ones from recognizing that their iPhone is different?
Maybe I'm just surrounded by a bunch of geeks all day, but in my social circle if one of our friends showed up with a particularly unique iPhone there would be a lot of questions about it. I have friends that work for Apple, all of them are as oblivious as the rest of us about hardware and software. How does Apple stop someones wife from picking up their prototype iPhone to check the time or otherwise? There must be a security measure on the phone, at the very least, but I suspect just less people have access than before.
lol, we're also apparently assuming that they came to his house in the first place, or that there ever was a phone. There's literally no proof of anything.
But by all means, don't let that stop...the rage!
Even when I agree that all this story is conjecture, the guy let them come in under false pretenses, if true.
Let's not take our civil liberties lightly, It is just a freaking phone, obviously, apple's personnel can not, do not know, how to "hold it" right.
I figured it was one of the other; even though I did catch that you mistakenly inserted "old" to his resume line of "26 year retired law enforcement professional."
What's particularly interesting is that the one person who recommended this guy on LinkedIn is none other than ... Larry Page.