Gizmodo paid $5,000 for Apple's next -generation iPhone who was "forgotten" in a Silicon Valley bar!
The Apple vs. Gizmodo stand-off, also known as the “lost iPhone” saga is getting murkier by the hour.
On Friday, members of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) Task Force raided Gizmodo’s editor Jason Chen and seized all kind of electronic equipments including several computers.
No need to resort to violence !
Surprisingly, the blogger was at the scene when the San Mateo county cops used a battering ram to break into his home.
“The blogger was there, they could have asked him for access… they didn’t have to break into the door, this wasn’t a drug bust. They didn’t need to use violence,” says analyst and former Sheriff, Rob Enderle.
REACT over-reacted ?
According to the task force’s website, REACT is a partnership of 17 local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies headquartered in Santa Clara County. It was founded in 1997 to address new types of crime directly tied to California’s increasingly computer-oriented economy and widespread use of the Internet.
“This is an organisation that was primarly put in place to catch professional criminals. Catch from people who was stealing from one company and selling information to another one. High profile intellectual property cases like somebody breaking and stealing processors from Intel or sold something of very high value… This is not an organisation that was put in place to keep people from reporting on information,” adds Enderle.
Apple’s undue influence on REACT
“Apple certainly is the one who appears to have pushed REACT into taking this kind of response. And appears they are on their advisory board and they may have undue influence on the group. Also we may have a group that want to prove themselves in some high profile way and assure funding [especially in an election year!]… It looks really questionable.”
No charges are filed yet – against Gizmodo or the poor soul who found the phone and got the stipend – and the seized computers are supposedly left untouched until a judge figures out if REACT had the right to seize them.
Like they say, shoot first and then ask questions !
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