FBI gets involved in Apple Store robberies

USA Today is reporting that the FBI has taken an interest in the recent spate of high profile Apple Store robberies:

The FBI is assisting several law enforcement agencies in an ongoing investigation of more than a dozen Apple Store robberies in states from Connecticut to Virginia, said Special Agent J.J. Klaver in Philadelphia.
This follows news this week of a fatality during an armed smash and grab in San Diego and a Pittsburgh Apple Store that has been broken into three times.

It appears that USA Today got some industry experts to comment as well…


Such escalated incidents “are few and far between,” says Seth Weintraub, editor of the website 9to5 Mac. But, “The publicity surely has Apple on guard.”

*thanks 9to5Mac*

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FBI Evidence Reveals 'At Apple You Can Get Fired For Saying K48'

A conversation, secretly taped by the FBI, captured a Flextronics director named Walter Shimoon spilling Apple secrets to an an unnamed "cooperative witness" (CW-2) employed by a hedge fund.

According to FORTUNE the conversation took place on Oct. 1, 2009. Shimoon and three co-defendants were arrested today on several changes of wire fraud and securities fraud.

The indictment reveals some interesting information:
● Apple, he is heard telling CW-2, was "coming out next year" with a new iPhone that's "gonna have two cameras ... It'll be a neat phone because it's gonna have a five-megapixel auto-focus camera and it will have a VGA forward-facing videoconferencing camera." Apple announced the iPhone 4 -- with its two cameras -- eight months later.
● Then he is heard telling CW-2 that "they [Apple] have a code name for something new ... It's totally ... It's a new category altogether... It doesn't have a camera, what I figured out. So I speculated that it's probably a reader. ... Something like that. Um, let me tell you, it's a very secretive program. ... It's called K, K48. That's the internal name. So, you can get, at Apple you can get fired for saying K48." The iPad -- code named K48 -- was unveiled four months later.




*thanks iclarified*

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