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Details of Lost Next-Generation iPhone Saga Revealed in Search Warrant Affidavit
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I hope it turns out otherwise. Were I the sentencing judge I'd lock Hogan up long enough to make an impression on him and on those who thought his behavior wasn't blameworthy. Ninety days sounds about right, again assuming no priors.
Whoever turns out to have been the motivating force at Gawker or Gizmodo is the person I most want to see receive the harshest penalty if convicted. There's an element of superciliousness about their actions, their letters to Apple and to the investigating detective, and in their blog entries that bespeaks a level of disrespect for the legal rights of others that calls for comeuppance. Whether it turns out to be the COO/barrister or someone else, that person does not want to come before me.
I accept your handicapping of the odds, but in a case as widely-publicized as this one, with even Jon Stewart tacitly condoning the alleged acts, I'm hoping for outlier sentences.
Some of these responses are beyond stupid.
...Apple is a bully, Apple did this, she is a snitch, blah blah blah....
Apple did what ANY company would do and did nothing wrong. Some of you guys need to get a clue and stop acting like mindless morons.
...Apple is a bully, Apple did this, she is a snitch, blah blah blah....
Apple did what ANY company would do and did nothing wrong. Some of you guys need to get a clue and stop acting like mindless morons.
Ditto Ditto Ditto
Some of the responses I've seen here make me embarrassed to be an American. We live in a society of largely uneducated, ignorant, and entitled little mama's boys.
I strongly support the act of unveiling the document. After all it's the work of a publicly funded criminal police investigation.
BUT, they really should have taken out the personal information. That's all.
I AGREE. A lot of people in this forum are unfairly attacking the female roommate and Apple.
But, Apple is just protecting their interests (like any tech company would do) AND the female roommate would be an accomplice if she knowingly went along with the other roommates. She's the one that wanted him to give the phone back.
But, Apple is just protecting their interests (like any tech company would do) AND the female roommate would be an accomplice if she knowingly went along with the other roommates. She's the one that wanted him to give the phone back.
Ain't gonna happen.
San Mateo County's jail system is over capacity, the judges' dockets are overbooked, etc. Unless this Hogan fellow has previous criminal history, he's not gonna do time. Generally speaking, there's not a lot of violent crime in San Mateo County (apart from East Palo Alto), but property crime has skyrocketed in these recession years.
The cash-strapped county gets more by extracting a large fine out of Hogan than putting him behind bars. He's basically a stupid, morally-bereft greedy kid who saw a cheap opportunity. Heck, he would have gotten far more by offering the device to one of Apple's competitors (who would have kept the transaction totally secret), not to some tech blog.
Hogan got himself into this muddle by being a bloody fool. He's a mouth-breathing clown.
The Gizmodo guys are far more serious offenders. They paid money for a device that clearly didn't belong to the seller. Worse, they held out returning the device to Apple, despite the fact that it was blatantly a prototype device and thus property of the manufacturer (clearly identifiable). That's why the affidavit says "suspect Chen."
While Hogan was an idiot, Chen and Lam were willful and complicit violators of California law. That's why the county's investigation is focused on them.
I still think the girl should get some freebies from SJ himself. Just not the MBA cuz then she'd be a snitch.
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The female roommate and APPLE are the only two players involved in this story who aren't complete morons and/or thieves.
The female roommate was apparently smart enough to realize that she didn't want anything to do with her shady roommate in regards to his "found" iPhone and she didn't want to get into trouble so she did the right thing.
All Apple did is take legal steps to protect it's property, which is what any sane company would do.
Yeah, I agree, Apple comes off as a bully here. This kid did not steal the phone, and he did not sell the phone to Nokia or Blackberry or something. He went to an online news source and was paid for the exclusive right to examine it. Journalists pay for exclusive information all the time. If Gizmodo intended to steal the phone they certainly wouldn't have run an article about it. Apple is being way too heavy-handed here. Very disappointing.
Plus, I have to say all the sanctimonious condemnations of the leak on this site in particular are utterly hilarious in their lack of self awareness. This is Mac Rumors--a site that ran all the leaked information about this phone with no compunctions whatsoever--and you all read about it. You read these same kinds of stories all the time, and Arn has no problem publishing them. If you were all so concerned about Apple keeping its corporate secrets you wouldn't be here in the first place, and Arn would have stayed a doctor. Or are you going to show your solidarity with Apple by giving this site up now? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Apple can shoulder some blame too, because they use sites like this to plant fake rumors in order to generate PR. By teasing people like that and stoking their appetite for Apple rumors, they only made it more likely that someone would hand their lost prototype to a journalist instead of giving it back.
Plus, I have to say all the sanctimonious condemnations of the leak on this site in particular are utterly hilarious in their lack of self awareness. This is Mac Rumors--a site that ran all the leaked information about this phone with no compunctions whatsoever--and you all read about it. You read these same kinds of stories all the time, and Arn has no problem publishing them. If you were all so concerned about Apple keeping its corporate secrets you wouldn't be here in the first place, and Arn would have stayed a doctor. Or are you going to show your solidarity with Apple by giving this site up now? Yeah, I didn't think so.
Apple can shoulder some blame too, because they use sites like this to plant fake rumors in order to generate PR. By teasing people like that and stoking their appetite for Apple rumors, they only made it more likely that someone would hand their lost prototype to a journalist instead of giving it back.
I think somebody is going to have to find herself some new roommates instead of the turkeys she has now.
Good luck with that "Nice Christian boy, gives to poor people, tried to return it and had no idea it was valuable" defense.
Also, it is reported there's a Gizmodo/Gawker exec who is out of the country. Wonder why?
I don't think the shield law was meant for this kind of activity.
Did you read that warrant? You cannot be a serious person and think "Apple is a bully" after reading that. If you know California law, that kid was guilty of theft the second he knew it belonged to an Apple engineer and didn't return it. Then he compounded it by selling something that didn't belong to him. That's illegal, you know?
Ask the head of "Macrumors" if Apple plants rumors. The secret sauce in the publicity they get: the products are great. The people who have them want to know what they'll do next. They release NOTHING. They don't have to.
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But, he sold it to a website which would make the information public and then broadcast those secrets to anybody on the planet with an internet connection, including Nokia and Blackberry and everybody else of course.
He also tried to hide the evidence, including in a church and in some bushes on the side of the road. He knew he was guilty.