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The mystery gadget?
Gadgets 246 Comments »Referring to Simon Owen’s post on the mysterious gadget, it seems that New Straits Times reports that thieves around Petaling Jaya are able to identify cars which have laptops in them by using a mysterious device, which even the cops are clueless about how it works. This will then carry out their theft on identified vehicles.
Malaysia’s New Straits Times reports that tech-savvy thieves in the district of Petaling Jaya have been using a “special gadget” in order to identify which parked cars have laptops hidden inside of them, with 255 laptops stolen from cars there so far this year.
The police, who have not been able to get their hands on one of these mysterious devices, are stumped and are recommending that people carry their laptops with them rather than leave them in their cars.
There have been a few (almost certainly) apocryphal tales of thieves using WiFi and Bluetooth to detect the presence of a laptop in a car or home, anyone have any idea what these guys are using? Are they shopping at the Engadget store, or are the police there just trying to come up with a fancy rationale for a crime wave?
This is a rather interesting news :)