Cast Member Steals Phone

[extechie rbd/wdt]

TnRobin, can you merge the two threads about the same subject?

If your around that is or another Mod?

Ex Techie

 

[normr]

A lady had her iPhone stolen on her recent Disney Wonder cruise, but the thief who is also an employee on the ship was too dumb to realize that the owner had photostream turned on which sends every picture that is taken up to the iCloud which then shows up on your other devices and computer.

Read the story it's on NPR and Cult of Mac, here is the link, plus you can even go to the Facebook link that the lady set up.

http://www.cultofmac.com/168875/wom...ploads-pics-to-photo-stream-for-world-to-see/


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4102695045342.2181863.1221948597&type=3&l=45551c466f


http://m.npr.org/story/153317969?ur...ams-photos-to-owner-who-puts-them-on-facebook

 

[E&Cmom]

There are 2 other threads on this topic already in the main Disney Cruise Line section.

 

[normr]

Ok sorry for reposting

 

[carolina_yankee]

So, if he stole the iPhone, how is he still using it under the original owner's mobile contract? The data charges alone must be huge. She should have had the cellular provider cancel the phone.

Why didn't he jailbreak and wipe the phone?

I wonder if there's more to the story.

Dirk

 

[SweetSpot]

Too funny! BTW the officer in white isn't the captain he is the officer in charge of the restaurants and food service.

 

[normr]

Just so you know, the lady who had here phone stolen was using the iCloud capability of th iPhone which has 2 great features, One is find my iPhone which if on will alow you to log into your iCloud account and locate your phone on a map, but that feature can be turned off, but there is also another setting called photostream which sends each photo that is taken up to the cloud and then down to every other iOS device and computer that you have setup for iCloud, so the thief probably turned off the find my phone setting. It didn't know about the photostream setting, so every photo he took showed up on the lady's computer, she then set up a Facebook page.

I am in contact with her and when I get updated I can let you know the outcome.

 

[normr]

Photostream only sends the photo's up on wifi, so before he might have wiped the phone, he started taking photos and then he probably got on the ships wifi to start surfing or doing email and the photos went up to the cloud.

 

[normr]

I hope someone on the next cruise shows the Officers on the ship the woman's site

 

[PhotoLisa]

In the last 30 minutes or so, the number of "shares" on her gallery has gone from 905 to 968. I guess you can say it is viral now.

I have always had so much trust of the employees in the past.

 

[normr]

I agree, the person may have purchased the stolen phone from the actual thief who could have been another cast member or even a guest.

 

[acourtwdw]

I'm not trying to discredit the validity of this story but all iphones have a "locate me" feature if your phone is ever lost. It doesn't usually take weeks to "find" an iphone even outside the US. Also, if the person who lost the phone called their carrier as soon as they knew it was missing, the carrier could have located the phone through their system as well and shut the phone down. I know this from experience. We went from Detroit to Orlando and my mom's phone continued on to Puerto Rico where is it was found by the crew cleaning the plane. Also how do we know the phone was "stolen" and not just "lost?"

 

[Cruise]

I'm not trying to discredit the validity of this story but all iphones have a "locate me" feature if your phone is ever lost.

I don't have an iphone, so I'm actually asking, not playing devil's advocate...but doesn't that feature have to be "activated," as in, registered with the website? I was reading another thread on another board that mentioned it. Maybe the owner didn't have the feature turned on?

Also how do we know the phone was "stolen" and not just "lost?"

I'm guessing the assumption that is if the phone were lost, then it would have been turned in to lost and found rather than being used to take photos weeks after it was lost. If the story is true, then the CM that "found" the phone knew it wasn't his phone, so shouldn't he have turned it into someone? Whether he "found" it or '"stole" it - either way, he shouldn't be using it for his own personal use now.

 

[Catira]

Photostream only sends the photo's up on wifi, so before he might have wiped the phone, he started taking photos and then he probably got on the ships wifi to start surfing or doing email and the photos went up to the cloud.

Ok I am an Iphone newbie so I have a couple of questions.

1. No password on her iPhone ? I have my phone set up with one
2. Ok, assuming no password he turned off "find my iPhone app".. the pics can be uploaded to iCloud ONLY if the phone is still activated right?

Guess the phone's owner still has her phone activated and is attempting to track it down on her own.. but the cell phone bill must be huge.

 

[extechie rbd/wdt]

Also handling stolen goods.

Ex Techie

 

[pxlbarrel]

Photostream only sends the photo's up on wifi, so before he might have wiped the phone, he started taking photos and then he probably got on the ships wifi to start surfing or doing email and the photos went up to the cloud.

If he managed to do anything on the ship's wifi, this guy is a criminal genius despite not realizing that he was sending his photos to this woman's computer.... I'm not disputing the validity of this woman's story but how in the world did that iPhone manage to send everything to the cloud using the ship's wifi? Hmmm.. Maybe he did it in port though ....

 

[MolonLabe]

Ok I am an Iphone newbie so I have a couple of questions.

1. No password on her iPhone ? I have my phone set up with one
2. Ok, assuming no password he turned off "find my iPhone app".. the pics can be uploaded to iCloud ONLY if the phone is still activated right?

Guess the phone's owner still has her phone activated and is attempting to track it down on her own.. but the cell phone bill must be huge.

1- Iphones have horrible security, like the windows phones. Even if he didn't have the simple ability to do it himself, the first port they got to, he could have had it done for him for a few bucks.

2- Yes and no, Wifi will work with no cell service or active plan. I'm not sure exactly how iCloud would work in that situation, I would assume as long as she had something still active (like the home computer) iCloud would be unaffected.

I'm an android person personally, much harder to crack the phone for personal data (using gingerbread and the swype lock), even the FBI can't crack it yet. If you "root" your phone, most wipe attempts will fail as well.

It's a much more secure platform than iPhone or Windows.

 

[lmhall2000]

Too funny! I loved the captions of the photos, sorry but that CM is guilty, at the very least of taking a phone under suspect circumstances, but more likely...found it or stole it and used it. I will freak if he shows up on our cruise in Sept!

 

[justmestace]

Interesting the number of people who don't want to believe this could happen on a Disney ship, with a Disney CM.

 

[princesskayla]

I have an iphone activated with Verzion. I live in an area not serviced by verzion. The phone is active but I have roaming capibilites set to the off position. I can still use the wifi function on the phone and use it as an ipod. All of my pictures show up on the icloud when I am connected to icloud. So that doesn't surprise me.