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The man was innocent, how would you like a corporation to come and search your house by posing as the police?
It was 100% wrong.
Funny... I would have expected the word "fascism" to figure more prominently in this discussion... since this is a text-book example of government serving corporate interests at the behest of the corporation and under the guise of government 'authority.'
Frankly, I can't imagine too many people being happy that the taxed fruits of their labor serve to fund corporate security matters... but then who are we kidding... BP, Halliburton, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs.... by now we should just be taking it for granted.
They were reportedly looking for a prototype of the next iPhone that an Apple employee left in a bar in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood...
The situation is reminiscent of when an Apple engineer's prototype iPhone 4 was taken from a bar in Redwood City, also in the Bay Area...
Originally posted by alfa1
It would probably help if Apple employees with prototype phones werent getting drunk all the time.
Calderon said he was led to believe the six people who arrived at his home were all policemen. He claimed he was never told that two of the people were Apple employees. Though he told the group that he didn't know anything about the phone, they asked to searched his house. He agreed.
news.cnet.com...
Originally posted by Flyer
Originally posted by rigel4
I have read the article from cnn, in all honesty, whats wrong with it.
Nothing too wrong with trying to get back stolen docs or prototypes after all
it is stealing.edit on 3-9-2011 by rigel4 because: (no reason given)
The man was innocent, how would you like a corporation to come and search your house by posing as the police?
It was 100% wrong.