Crooks Steal $1.5M In iPads From JFK 144
alphadogg writes "A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in GoodFellas, according to the New York Post. The crooks struck shortly before midnight on Monday and used one of the airport's own forklifts to load two pallets of the tablet computers into a truck, according to law-enforcement sources. It's been a crazy year for iPad/iPhone thefts in New York City and elsewhere."
Serialized? (Score:5, Insightful)
Does Apple have a way to not allow these to be used if turned on, or can they track them through some kind of CPU ID code?
My God.. (Score:5, Insightful)
That's like 9 ipads.
Re:And The Culprit Is, (Score:5, Insightful)
That was my first thought, that it was an inside job or serious help and an inside job. And to be honest you're not off on believing it either, there's an old bit in criminology where 70-80% of your theft comes from internal sources. Of that 70-80%, 40-50% of those people will steal regardless of whether or not they're going to get caught.
Seriously the entire organization needs to be launched into the sun, it's the only way to be sure.
At first I thought... (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought it was the TSA itself - but the iPad Mini is rather new, for the TSA to have stolen that many of them since launch, at least at a single airport.
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Re:MAC Address anyone? (Score:4, Insightful)
I doubt that the people who pulled off the heist stole the machines with the intent to keep them for personal use.
Re:First post! (Score:3, Insightful)
Which you'll be able to install on like 5% of the Android devices out there!
Re:Serialized? (Score:4, Insightful)