We continue without missing any news regarding vandalism and peculiar theft in the Apple Store environment. And the thing is that in Spain we are quite innovative when it comes to roguery. This time we are going to focus our article on the most emblematic Apple Store in the country, the one located in Puerta del Sol in the city of Madrid. And it is that ten young people have been arrested accused of stealing devices by cutting the protection cables using their dentures. A new method until now unknown and that leads us to ask many questions about security in Apple stores.
Up to ten young people have been detained by the National Police, eight of whom are minors due to this event. Nevertheless, They did not succeed in their attempt, and that is because the security forces were alerted to this new type of robbery So they had established a protocol that allowed them to hunt down criminals, trying to steal devices that cost around nine hundred euros. It certainly does not cease to surprise us that the vast majority of detainees have the status of minors, which exempts them to a certain degree from the responsibilities derived from this type of act.
The detainees were brought to justice, which ended up deciding that they must respect a restraining order a hundred meters above the Apple stores. A decision that once again raises controversy regarding immunity for this type of act. It should be noted that these demo iPhones available in the Apple Store have a demo version of the operating system, so they were going to be of little or no use outside the store. Once again, Sol's Apple Store appears on the cover for its insecurity.
That demo version is easy to format ... you just put it in DFU mode, connect it to iTunes and install the latest version of iOS through a .ipa and that's it.
An iPhone of this type is useless as a phone today. At most you could use it as an iPod, as you cannot activate it from iTunes as it is blocked by Apple for these purposes. So yes, stealing an iPhone from a store is only going to serve you to sell it for parts surely in China. In considerable amounts, it can still be lucrative to steal them this way. Of course, these guys are not very smart, if they do not think that what they could have earned, they were going to have to give it to the dentist to repair their teeth ...
Man, if I were Apple I would have already foreseen this and, in addition to not allowing to activate the phone functionality (I would have blocked it to a non-existent company so that it could not be activated or similar), it would send the GPS position of the terminal through iTunes… Taking into account that you have to have an internet connection to activate the terminal, and taking into account that the demo mobile itself does not have a SIM card, it is easy to think that at least it sends the position through iTunes.
It can be very attractive to take a terminal of these by the face, but ... Considering that its main use is to connect it to the internet and with a GPS that carries the device is to shout that you have a stolen terminal ...
The kids were Romanian, but that's not worth putting it, is it?
The Spanish pillería you say ... when the culprits have not been Spanish