Find My Vigilante

Ian Lovett:

With smartphone theft rampant, apps like Find My iPhone offer a new option for those desperate to recover their devices, allowing victims like Ms. Maguire to act when the police will not. But the emergence of this kind of do-it-yourself justice — an unintended result of the proliferation of GPS tracking apps — has stirred worries among law enforcement officials that people are putting themselves in danger, taking disproportionate risks for the sake of an easily replaced item.

This is stupid. Don’t do this. It’s called “Find My iPhone,” not “Track my iPhone to a thief’s home only to get shot in the face.”

Via The Verge

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