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  • Write about an Apple product, get your house ransacked

    Posted on April 27th, 2010 at 17:55 woody 2 comments

    Jason Chen, the head guy at Gizmodo, has made some very powerful enemies by writing about the iPhone 4G. Apparently, Gizmodo received a working prototype of the new iPhone under extenuating circumstances. Jason’s written about it, in spite of Apple’s heated objections.

    Officers from the California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, using a court order issued by the Superior Court of San Mateo CA, broke into Jason’s house and took out four computers and two servers.

    Makes you wonder about a lot of things, eh?

    Jason’s account is on the Gizmodo site.

     

    2 responses to “Write about an Apple product, get your house ransacked”

    1. I am sorry but I don’t feel a lot of sympathy for Jason Chen. Dealing in stolen goods plus writing gossip on a tech website about a confidential product certainly isn’t going to endear him to many folks.

    2. Well I guess this ends speculation that Apple deliberately planted the prototype in that bar.

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