A video taken with my stolen iPhone – qik

November 13th, 2008 | by geo |

Update: QIK is cooperating to find out more about the stream. Street level view, address, etc. Thank u google and qik.

Here is a video taken by the people who stole my iphone (or the people who purchased it from them). They finally re-activated it and figured out how to use qik to upload videos. I realized this when my facebook status showed I had just uploaded a video to QIK, and I hadn’t. I did change my password on qik after it was stolen, but it looks like that didn’t stop it from posting. I don’t understand why it posted??????

Now that I have the geo-location of where the video was taken, let’s see if the police can find them. You can click on the “map” tab to see where the video was taken. Too bad it was a first gen iphone without real GPS (I would have exact location), but let’s see if the cell tower triangulation of the first gen iphone can get close enough. Will keep u posted ;) Got ya!

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  1. 6 Responses to “A video taken with my stolen iPhone – qik”

  2. By Charlie on Nov 13, 2008 | Reply

    Too bad the iPhone doesn’t have a self-destruct feature.

  3. By geo on Nov 13, 2008 | Reply

    We need self destruct (killpill sms would be nice) + GPS tacking from the web.

    Just send an sms with a special code and POW – device wiped. Meanwhile GPS location is streamed for the police to find.

  4. By geo on Nov 13, 2008 | Reply

    FYI here is the street level where the video was taken – Thanks to QIK.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=41.9237630181193,+-87.6393562608084&sll=41.924057,-87.639211&sspn=0.001553,0.00235&layer=c&ie=UTF8&z=16&g=41.9237630181193,+-87.6393562608084&iwloc=addr&cbll=41.923779,-87.639368&panoid=vbRpV32uvBhMNsmyZvM6Eg

  5. By Charlie on Nov 13, 2008 | Reply

    Actually Nokia E61i & E90 have a feature with a unique SMS you can lock your phone. I am working at a company now that does encryption, lock, wipe and device management. iPhone has a lot of capabilities but now requires Exchange to do remote wipe. They never intended for people to get their phones back if stolen. It sucks some jerk ran off with your phone though I probably need to be more careful with mine.

  6. By chuck on Jan 7, 2009 | Reply

    hey geo, just wondering if anything more came out of this. Would be a pretty interesting way to catch a crook.

  7. By geo on Jan 7, 2009 | Reply

    Police looked into but were unable to find them with just the one video upload. If they continue to post it will be easier, but nothing of yet.

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