Iphone 4G – Lucky Find

A prototype of Ihpone 4G was lost.It seems that the Iphone 4G was lost in a bar.An engineer and a student walk into a bar. The engineer lost an Apple phone prototype next-generation, the student finds and takes home. Days after publication Gizmodo pay $ $ 5,000 to receive the device, and publishes photos, videos and technical details on your page, which attracts millions of visitors.But what seemed an amusing story or a lucky find has become a complicated legal process that could end badly for some, or all those involved in the case of the ‘iPhone 4G. ”
In a beer garden

Brian Hogan was a student of 21 years, who found an unattractive smart phone in a German beer bar Redwood City, a suburb of San Francisco in California, according to a published report from Wired.

Mr Hogan’s lawyer says he and his friends asked for the owner of the device and received no response as they carried him home, where they would discover that it was a prototype of Apple, probably the next generation iPhone, a version would then be confirmed by Apple, which also declare your phone as stolen.

Hogan needed a lawyer because the state of California is considered theft of a device appropriate without exhausting all means to find his rightful owner.

But also because the police of San Mateo County, in charge of the case of the prototype of Apple, has to take into account the possibility that it is a complex case of industrial espionage.
Controversial seizure

The suspicion that this was an exceptional item was Brian Hogan and his friends to offer, in exchange for money, photographs and details to various technology publications such as Engadget and Wired, who declined the offer. It was Jason Chen, Gizmodo blog editor who finally accepted the offer and paid $ $ 5,000 to receive the device.

The story on the device published by Gizmodo last April 19 was made globally famous, and revealed details of the phone as a front camera port and micro-SIM card.

But police also carried San Mateo County to the offices of Gizmodo to confiscate equipment belonging to Mr Chen, including several computers and servers, an iPhone and IPAD.

Chen, who had foreseen this situation, carried a copy of Section 1542 of the California Penal Code, which protects the material produced by journalists in their research. But it is likely that even if he had been present during the police raid, Mr. Chen would have to stand idly by because the police were not prepared to recognize the phone purchased as newsprint.

The editor of Gizmodo published an account of the facts along with related legal articles. The reaction of your readers was concerned about respect for the law, and publications like CNet reported that the police could have been rushed to confiscate the material.

Attorney statements
The student Brian Hogan, some of his colleagues and the editor of Gizmodo, Jason Chen, now face a legal process that would probably have been avoided if those $ $ 5000 would not have mediated between the two parties.

Mr Hogan’s lawyer says that “there was nothing wrong in sharing the phone with the press,” adding that “although he received compensation from Gizmodo, my client always thought it was to transfer the publishing rights on the phone” rather than selling the device itself.
Additionally, Hogan’s lawyer indicated that the boy has worked in a church community giving swimming lessons and has worked as a volunteer at an orphanage in China last year, on a trip he took to study abroad.

“Brian is the kind of son any parent would be proud,” said Hogan’s attorney in an interview for publication Wired. But laudable its intentions, is the San Mateo police to decide whether their actions can be categorized as a crime.

Another way to lose millions
The loss of prototypes by accident or industrial espionage is far from being the most common way which a company can lose millions of dollars.
According to a report by the digital security company Gemalto about 75% of the organizations on the planet suffered cyber attacks over the past 12 months. At an estimated average loss, the company estimates that each organization lost the equivalent of $ 2 million. Another of his estimates indicated that the sale of information has reached a staggering total of $ 7 billion dollars annually.

According to the report State of Enterprise Security Symantec Norton anti-virus developer, the three main areas affected by digital attacks are productivity, income and loss of trust from customers. Data were thrown by a survey of more than 2000 senior managers from 27 countries, among which are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

As usual in the field of digital security, the report predicts the increase in cyber attacks in 2010, accompanied by an increase in costs associated with these have for organizations.

The report also reveals that the U.S. continues to lead the list of countries with the largest source of pieces of malicious software, with over 37% of infected Web pages hosted on servers located within their territory. Russia and China are close behind with 13% and 11% respectively