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Usually, I don’t cover up personal life stories of people using several products, but I simply had to do this one. A great example of how technology can enable safety and security for us.

TUAW reader Rob, posted his personal incident and here it is:

While at the dry cleaner one day, Rob’s iPhone was stolen. He immediately chalked it up as gone forever, and proceeded to purchase a brand new one that same evening. It was the next day when unfamiliar contacts began to appear on the new phone. The (not-too-bright) thief was unwittingly supplying him with names and phone numbers of his or her closest friends, via the magic of MobileMe synchronization from the stolen phone to the cloud and eventually to his new phone. "It didn’t take long for me to realize that MobileMe was leading me right to the thief!" wrote Rob.

Thanks to the fact that he caught on to it before he’d had time to remotely disconnect his account, MobileMe provided the groundwork for a little social engineering. Rob made quick work of wrangling a name and phone number from the provided contacts, supplying the police with everything they needed to get Rob his phone back. By the end of the night, he had his original iPhone in his possession.

Wow, humorous and quite ecstatic, if I must say. Technology indeed is a blessing, but it really depends on how we use it for the betterment of our society. I am sure Apple would never have thought about this!

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