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martyb
on Saturday August 15 2015, @08:02PM
from the rats-got-bored-running-through-mazes dept.
from the rats-got-bored-running-through-mazes dept.
The Buffalo News Police Blotter reports that a pair of thieves stole Xbox wireless controllers and police tracked them down by contacting the manufacturer. Maybe this is standard operating procedure for the cops, but it was new to this submitter. Any idea of the mechanism(s) involved?
No explicit mention of Microsoft — perhaps these controllers were made by a third party to work with Xbox.
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(Score: 1) by cnst on Sunday August 16 2015, @04:55AM
I've had an uncommon Garmin GPS device with a GSM/EDGE 2G radio on AT&T network, with an active subscription, and I was trying to make a police department in Sacramento (California) try to locate it, absolutely fruitless.
Tried calling Garmin, AT&T and the local Sacramento PD, and they all were completely uninterested, even though a whole 10k$+ newish car was missing together with the device!
I have decided to never ever buy another Garmin device ever again, such a bunch of jerks. The thing not only had GSM/EDGE radio on AT&T, but it would also use it to fetch local weather; I bet by checking their access logs alone they could easily tell me or the police department with the location of the thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @05:38AM
> I bet by checking their access logs alone they could easily tell me or the police department with the location of the thing.
That's reason enough not to buy one. I use a stand-alone GPS unit specifically because I don't want it phoning home and reporting my location.