Fuck the police (and Apple)

Wait...I take the Apple part back. I don't want the Apple gods to flip that switch and wipe out my fucking Mac Book.

But seriously, who's running who here? Some asshole Apple employee gets drunk and leaves his precious, exclusive, too hot for the world next generation IPhone at a bar and all hell breaks lose when a journalist finds it and does what any journalist would have done, HE BROKE THE STORY ON IT! So if I find a next generation Ipad in a park and do a blog about it the cops can treat me like a filthy drug lord by raiding my house and seizing my belongings? Even better, if I were to lose my Blackberry and have the info on the person that I think may have it will they kick in the doors waving four-fours for little ole me? Doubt it.

And for the record, YES, I'm all for team Blackberry. Muthafuck an Iphone.

Cops raid home of Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chin after he posts inside info on next-generation iPhone

BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Don't take a bite out of Apple.

California cops raided the home of a prominent tech Web site editor after he posted inside info about a next-generationiPhone left in a bar.

Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chin came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for evidence of a felony linked to an online expose about the new iPhone.

"They then made me place my hands behind my head and searched me to make sure I had no weapons or sharp objects on me," Chin wrote on his Web site Monday night.

Chin said a detective told him it search stemmed from "a misunderstanding that could be cleared up if I answered some questions." He refused to be grilled.

A search warrant signed by a San Mateo County Superior Court Judge indicated detectives were searching for evidence connected to lost Apple device.

The warrant allowed sheriff's detectives to seize all records, "including digital photographs and/or video of the Apple prototype 4G iPhone."

Apple officials said last week the super-secret iPhone was lost in March by one of its researchers.

Chin said someone found the iPhone in a bar and contacted Gizmodo, which paid $5,000 for the opportunity to take the device apart and photograph it.

Detectives seized four of Chins computers, his digital camera and several external hard drives.

Gaby Darbyshire, chief operating officer of Gizmodo's parent company, Gawker Media, said the raid was a blatant violation of Chin's First Amendment rights as a journalist.

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