The iPhone, white preferred of the thieves in New York

The iPhone is the most coveted object not only by the lovers of the technology and the design but also by the thieves of new York. The files of the police are full of accusations of people that suffered the theft of its cell phone of Apple while they left the meter, they removed to stroll to its dog or they stopped before a signal in red, as reported the daily one The New York Times.

The robbery of electronic apparatuses enlarged the 17% with respect to last year, and five of each seven mobile telephones stolen to the people on the metro they corresponded to the device of Apple.

In some cases, the listing of the telephone book or the data stored in the teams stolen can be defused to distance, if they are found properly configured. Other users are used to facing the potential problem upon installing specific applications as “iGotYa”, that utilizes the frontal camera of the iPhone to photograph to whom tries to release the telephone and is mistaken of password and an e-mail of the legitimate owner sends it.

The phenomenon is not new, and form splits of a series of robberies marked by the tendency of use of an accessory or clothing. In the decade of the 80 were the eyeglasses of framework Cazal, and in the 90 the objective of the thieves were the slippers Air Jordan of Nike, to such extent that the police of Newark should fight with the wave of robberies with a special group of officials.