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iPod touch Found iPod Touch- Need to Break Password?

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Okay honestly, it is really pointless to bicker about it if he can't find any way of getting the guy's contact information.

I used to work in a school lost-and-found and at the end of the year if no one would claim the stuff we would take it to the salvation army and give it to poor people (who wouldn't have a computer to use this with) and honestly a few of us would sift through it just to take it. If people don't want to bother looking in the most obvious places for their things after months of it being there, they clearly don't want it or have given up...so just giving it to the owner would be nice but sadly not always possible (and sometimes not even worth it)

The other thing is, its like finding 100 dollars in NYC. You'd keep that **** and spend it. Or, maybe, you would give it to a poor person. At any rate, it wouldn't go back to the owner.

The real question is, why were you destined to find it? To give it back to the owner or to keep it yourself? Maybe it is for a reason you were to find it, so do whatever you can to find the owner (and him only), and if you really can't, its yours to keep. Really, as one poster said, in NYC you'd just assume it was lost by that point.

BTW -- You may want to ask apple to check the serial number and see if someone has it registered, so perhaps they may impart on you some information...
 
Like everyone else is sayin i think you should do all you can to find its owner...even if you get the password still do all you can to find the person by looking in the contacts* and stuff...but if i found it and couldn't find it's owner without figuring out the password i would do the only thing i can think of to break the password and that would take forever...but it's the only thing i can think of... start at 0000 as the password and then 0001,0002,0003....then when you get to 0009 go to 0010 and so on and so forth untill you get to 9999...like i said it's gona take forever but it's the only thing i can think of...but more than likley you won't have to go all the way up to 9999 but it still will take a while...but anyway...goodluck...be a man and do all you can to find the owner dude...if you don't it really shows how little of a man you are...but anyway goodluck and let me know what happens :)
 
A MESSAGE TO OP, AND ALL WHO THINK TAKING IT TO THE POLICE IS A STUPID IDEA......

About 3 months after i got my touch, I lost it. (On a sidewalk, incidentally)

I was shattered. I had worked hard to save the A$500 to buy it, and i though i had no chance of ever seeing it again, but planned on going down to check at the cop shop the next day, just in case.

The person who picked it up didn't think to look at the contacts, so they took it to my local police station, one of the cops there had seen ipod touchs before, and thought to look in the contacts app, where he found my entry for 'home'.

They called me, i **** myself and ran down there... and got my ipod back.

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I know that the one being discussed in this thread is locked, so the owner is going to have to check at the police station, they're not gonna get a call, but PLEASE!!!! DO IT. TAKE IT DOWN THERE.

If two weeks go by and no one claims it, you will be the proud, guilt-free, legitimate owner of an ipod touch.
 
Spiderman1490 said:
Like everyone else is sayin i think you should do all you can to find its owner...even if you get the password still do all you can to find the person by looking in the contacts* and stuff...but if i found it and couldn't find it's owner without figuring out the password i would do the only thing i can think of to break the password and that would take forever...but it's the only thing i can think of... start at 0000 as the password and then 0001,0002,0003....then when you get to 0009 go to 0010 and so on and so forth untill you get to 9999...like i said it's gona take forever but it's the only thing i can think of...but more than likley you won't have to go all the way up to 9999 but it still will take a while...but anyway...goodluck...be a man and do all you can to find the owner dude...if you don't it really shows how little of a man you are...but anyway goodluck and let me know what happens :)
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The only problem with this is that it would take years to do... If you type in the wrong passcode 4 times it locks for a minute, and the next time 5, then 10, then 15, then 30, and so on. You'd probably just make it lock for a year, and then if it does get returned to the owner, they'd have to restore it all over again. You can try this on you're own iPod, but just make sure you enter the right password on the fifth time ;)

Shep
 
I agree with most of the people on this topic.

Most people today don't even take the time to even try and find the rightful owner of stolen/lost property, if it ends up in their hands. But, if it was me i think i would give it a week to try and find the owner before i kept it; besides if you take anything to the police that has been found they are supposed to return it to you after 3-4 weeks.

But at least try to do something to locate the owner.
 
jacktiernan said:
A MESSAGE TO OP, AND ALL WHO THINK TAKING IT TO THE POLICE IS A STUPID IDEA......

About 3 months after i got my touch, I lost it. (On a sidewalk, incidentally)

I was shattered. I had worked hard to save the A$500 to buy it, and i though i had no chance of ever seeing it again, but planned on going down to check at the cop shop the next day, just in case.

The person who picked it up didn't think to look at the contacts, so they took it to my local police station, one of the cops there had seen ipod touchs before, and thought to look in the contacts app, where he found my entry for 'home'.

They called me, i **** myself and ran down there... and got my ipod back.
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That's good for you, but were you in NY?
 
I had a lost iPod returned to the help desk at my college, which is possibly an even less likely scenario than NYC (ok, maybe an overstatement, but how many college students would do that?), though of course it was stolen about a year later from my workplace (not by an employee, by 'customers'). While it may be unlikely that the person would expect it back, it's certainly possible that they would still try to find it if possible. I know I would, even in NYC.

jW
 
Sad, really, that you have to come to a public forum and ask for help on making a moral judgement. There's a lot of things I'm sure a lot of us would "like" to do, but because of common sense and hopefully a reasonably strong moral compass, we don't be cause it siimply doesn't cross our minds as the right thing to do.

Like people have said, at least make a manly attempt at returning it. Call Apple and ask if they can help. Put up a posting on Craiglist indicating location, date, and model found and ask for the rightful owner to provide you with the correct serial number. At least do something...

jason2811 said:
I would like to keep it and unlock it but I don't know if that's the right thing to do based on the situation.
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Have you thought about putting up a craigs list ad?

Just put up something saying you found an ipod in the vicinity of ________ around such and such a date.

Set up a freebie email address with gmail or something and have people inquire there. If they bought the ipod, theres a chance they still have some documentation and perhaps the serial number to prove it's theirs.

If you can get proof positive it's theirs-- you can return it to the owner via mail or something. Yeah, keeping it would be a great lucky find-- but at least trying to find the owner is good karma and peace of mind if you ultimately cannot find the real owner.
 
"The right thing to do" is a statement that I rather loathe and despise. Who is to say what is right and what is wrong? Morality is such a fickle and ambigious subject that it will almost always leads to debates such as these. I'm not advocating either or. I just wish people would stop saying its wrong for him to keep it. **** happens in life. If you lose your $500 ipod it should be a life lesson to be more responsible about expensive personal possesions and if by some God someone finds it and returns it, well you just got very lucky. To the original poster, you have your own set of morals. If you are ok with keeping it and it wont keep you up at night, then keep it. If you feel obligated to do something about it then try to contact the owner. Trying to crack the password probably isnt going to happen and if you cant restore it, its useless. At the end of the day, this is one person's ipod, and one person that found it. There are more important things to worry about like when the hell is the SDK going to be released. :D
 
Anyone that thinks bringing the iPod to a NYC police station gives it any shot in hell of getting back to the owner is naive. That thing will be taken home by one of NYC's Finest in about 30 seconds. Place an ad on cragislist, contact Apple (who will tell you to bug off) and then wait about a week. Then it is up to you what to do with it.
 
slu said:
Anyone that thinks bringing the iPod to a NYC police station gives it any shot in hell of getting back to the owner is naive. That thing will be taken home by one of NYC's Finest in about 30 seconds.
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I'm just curious. If you take something in to the police in the UK you get a receipt for it, and then if it isn't claimed, it's yours. At least that's how it worked last time I took something in. Don't you get a receipt for it over there?

pismodule2 That's good for you, but were you in NY?
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I tend to behave the same everywhere, don't you?
 
Ish said:
I'm just curious. If you take something in to the police in the UK you get a receipt for it, and then if it isn't claimed, it's yours. At least that's how it worked last time I took something in. Don't you get a receipt for it over there?
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Even if you got a receipt, that doesn't mean it wouldn't get "lost" at the station. Hell, if they can't hold onto evidence in crimes 100% of the time, what makes you think they can hold on to lost property?

As a side question, to all those that said to bring it to the police, since when has the police been your local lost and found? I'd be pretty pissed that my tax dollars were being spent in this capacity. If I were a police chief and someone brought in a lost iPod, I would tell them, "We don't want it. Good luck finding the owner!"
 
skir0987 said:
The only problem with this is that it would take years to do... If you type in the wrong passcode 4 times it locks for a minute, and the next time 5, then 10, then 15, then 30, and so on. You'd probably just make it lock for a year, and then if it does get returned to the owner, they'd have to restore it all over again. You can try this on you're own iPod, but just make sure you enter the right password on the fifth time ;)

Shep
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ah! lol my bad..I forgot about that...i haven't ever gotton my password wrong that many times but i heard about it lol that would not be good at all if it locks for a year :/ i did hear somewhere that if you go far enough it locks untill you hook it up to the computer its used to...hmm...ohwell..thanks for pointing that out ;)
 
jason2811

Hello, my friend just lost his ipod touch in the snow this weekend. I was wondering where you found it and if there would be any chance you could return it since there is a password lock on it. Was it behind the O.P. Thanks
 
kuebby said:
I don't know if you actually contacted Apple about this but I know in the past when people have done this when trying to return things they have been told by Apple employees that they won't look up owner information.



Same here. If I lost my iPod on the streets of NYC I would just chalk it up as a loss and move on.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9039710

Posted by Nudethecih
"I found an ipod once, I contacted apple, they obviously could not give me the owners information, however was able to give the employee MY contact information, they called the owner and gave my contact information to the owner, they got in touch with me and I was able to return it.

good luck in your good deed endeavors."

Of course Apple won't give you someone else's info, BUT they could take yours and try and call the person themselves. Call Apple, maybe this will work for you as well.
 
Wow.

I didn't even feel like scrolling through the rest of this, but he clearly was NOT looking for ethics advice.

Just restore it.
Plug it into your computer, wait for itunes to pop up, and click restore.

Done :)

I'm not a dishonest person, but he found it. It's his gain. Haha. NYPD won't do ****.
 
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