[AusNOG] Tracing a stolen mobile phone

[Robert Hudson]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 15:53, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> There have been a couple of car thieves found in the last few weeks who
> have run off with vehicles which have iPhones or iPads in them, and the
> owners have used "Find my iPhone" to locate them, which is excruciatingly
> funny.
>
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/man-charged-after-police-track-stolen-car-using-find-my-ipad-app/ar-AAD2wZb?li=AAgfIYZ&p=DevEx%2C5073.1
>
Sadly, the data is disabled on the device, so that avenue isn't available.

> With all the so-called national security legislation that has passed over
> the last couple of years, there's no doubt that the police *can* track a
> device via its IMEI.
>
> But they won't. Not for a trivial case. Only for leak investigations
> arising from referrals from Ministers, they'll get onto them like a beaver
> on wood. But actually helping real normal people? LOL no, that's not what
> those laws were for.
>
That was what I suspected, I just wanted to confirm it. :(

> Regards,
>
>   - mark
>
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