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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: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Saturday August 15 2015, @09:06PM
Microsoft surely performs a hardware survey and must be collecting serial numbers. If the empty boxes left at Walmart also had the serial printed on them then there would be a way to track them down. The thieves must have registered their xbox or had an online subscription via credit card in order to connect the xbox with an address. Though i suppose if MS just provided an IP address to the xbox the police could have talked with the ISP to also get the physical address.
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