News Thief Chews Through Anti-Theft Cable After iPhone 14 Plus Sticker Shock

[Admin]

iPhone 14 Plus sticker shock precipitates anti-theft cable gnawing robbery, but the strong-toothed perp got caught within half an hour.

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[InvalidError]

Guess China hasn't stolen the secrets of tamper-evident anti-theft cables tied into an alarm system. Damage the cable or pull too hard on the sensor glued on the back of the phone to attach the cable and the alarm goes off.

 

[brandonjclark]

With teeth like that, just make sure he\she never gives a friendly present downstairs.

 

[Findecanor]

Guess China hasn't stolen the secrets of tamper-evident anti-theft cables tied into an alarm system. Damage the cable or pull too hard on the sensor glued on the back of the phone to attach the cable and the alarm goes off.

The problem with some of these anti-theft systems is that they go off too easily, and therefore multiple times a day.
At the end of the day, store clerks get tired of the system "crying wolf", and stop responding.

Anyway. This story points at the problem with today's technology: people are too dependent on them: not just for daily tasks but also emotionally ... thus leading to incidents like this.
If she hadn't been so desperate, you'd think she could have left and come back with a side-cutter.

 

[newtechldtech]

in the meanwhile rich people who buy an iPhone every year dont pay their taxes .. and benefit from the taxes while others who pay dont , for most of the taxes are spent in the infrastructure of wealthy neighbors more . The poor people who live faraway from trains and services due to the higher rent , dont get anything from the total tax , because almost noting is expensive to maintain where they live.

 

[USAFRet]

Lets not go off on a totally irrelevant, offtopic, political crapfest.
OK?

 

[Friesiansam]

With teeth like that, just make sure he\she never gives a friendly present downstairs.

Time for that stainless steel condom...

 

[atomicWAR]

Yeah it appears they need to investigate their security practices if someone only needed their teeth to free the phone. smh

 

[Sippincider]

Yeah it appears they need to investigate their security practices if someone only needed their teeth to free the phone. smh

That cable just needs to convey "Don't even think about it".

I would expect there are other systems in place if a thief wants to proceed anyway.

 

[neojack]

impressive feat to be able to find her 30 mins later.
impressive and frightening, she probably was retraced with surveillance AI tied to the cameras in the store and in the streets, finding her name, adress, etc.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Qiu apparently explained to police that she went to the store intending to purchase a new device, after losing her phone. However, the iPhone 14 Plus sticker price of 7,000 yuan (US$960) apparently left her exasperated, so she decided to steal the store's demo sample.

If only there were a cheaper phone with the same A15 SoC yet cost half as much. Maybe they could call it an "SE".

 

[3ogdy]

Someone needs to tell that woman that there are phones out there that she can afford.
She needs to stop acting like an Apple slave and realize what's out there within her budget.
Frankly, fixing your teeth probably costs more than her phone options.