Carnegie Mellon student robbed, uses iPhone to track down culprits

Hey. This is me.<p>Weird that this came up again; this happened in August and there was a really crazy media frenzy at the time which mostly died down (although I do get a few random emails time to time).<p>And yeah, I do work for The Tartan.

Why are the culprits in the story referred to as "actors"?

<a href="https://www.mobiledefense.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mobiledefense.com/</a> makes tracking a stolen Android phone trivial. I installed it last night and it is pretty cool.

A friend just told me today that he got his iphone stolen by a class mate. He went to the police, gave them the UID of the phone, and he got it back 3 days later.<p>Apperantly, as he told me, the police contacted apple which gave them the exact position of the mobile phone through the build in gps device, so the police could just pick it up.

Is that a good trade? Potentially being able to recover a lost phone versus Apple (and whomever can subpoena it) knowing where you are all the time?

Is there an app for easily tracking a lost or stolen iPhone?

a baby car seat?

I use a tracking program like this for my laptop - it's called Adeona. But apparently the network it uses got taken down. :\<p>It only worked when connected to an interweb, of course.