"We expect the immediate return of the materials that you confiscated from Mr. Gizmodo also published a letter from a lawyer for its owner, Gawker Media, objecting to the raid on Chen's home and arguing that a "search warrant may not be validly issued to confiscate the property of a journalist."
Gizmodo has said it returned the iPhone prototype to Apple after the notoriously secretive company asked for it back. The officers, members of the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, took four computers and two computer servers from the couple's house, according to the posting. "They told me they were here for a few hours already and had to break the front door open because I wasn't home to open the door." "The officers had a computer and were cataloging all the items they took from my home," Chen said.
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Gizmodo last week said it purchased the iPhone prototype for 5,000 dollars from an unidentified person who found it in a California bar, where it had been lost by a 27-year-old Apple software engineer named Gray Powell.Ĭhen said in a post on the Gizmodo website on Monday that he and his wife returned from having dinner out on Friday to find police searching their home in the northern California county of San Mateo. The search warrant signed by a local judge specifically authorized the seizure of "printed documents, images and/or notations pertaining to the sale and/or purchase of the stolen iPhone prototype." Gizmodo published excerpts from a search warrant that gave police permission to seize property from editor Jason Chen's home that was "used as the means of committing a felony" or "tends to show that a felony has been committed." Still, it’s hard to keep Ming-Chi Kuo out of the loop completely, with the reputed analyst relaying this week some fascinating details about the device’s new edgeless design.AFP - Gizmodo said Monday that California police raided the home of an editor for the gadget blog who revealed details last week of a secret next-generation iPhone prototype. With the iPhone 8 said to feature the most radical redesign that we’ve seen in years, it’s a safe bet that Apple is doing all it can to prevent any leaks about the device’s new form factor from leaking out. It then is finally sent with its ‘passport’ from China to Apple.” It makes its way through each test/person. “The person writes their initials next to it and any notes about it passing or failing or any other comments. “Each component or product that is tested they document in the page,” Dickson told MacRumors. What’s also interesting is that each iPhone travels with a passport of sorts designed to document how the device performs in any number of given tests.
The yellow tape, meanwhile, is there to detect if anyone attempts to tamper with the case and remove the iPhone from its secure housing. As evidenced below, only a small portion of the display itself is visible. Pictured below is one such iPhone case designed to completely cover as much of an iPhone’s design as possible.