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Apple Should Create Stolen iPhone 'Kill Switch,' Says Top City Prosecutor

The top prosecutor in San Francisco wants Apple to design a "kill switch" for iPhones that would render devices useless after they are stolen.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said he pressed an Apple representative last week to embed such technology in every iPhone to diminish the product's value on the thriving black market for stolen mobile devices.

Gascon described the meeting as “very underwhelming," and said he now wants to meet with Apple chief executive Tim Cook to discuss development of an iPhone "kill switch."

“Given how nimble our technology companies are and how they can develop so many new features, I strongly believe that is a very doable thing,” Gascon said in an interview with The Huffington Post.

An Apple spokesman did not return a request for comment.

Across the country, police have reported a surge in thefts of smartphones and tablet computers -- iPhones and iPads in particular -- as criminals snatch mobile devices and resell them on the Internet, on street corners and inside local convenience stores. Of the 3,190 robberies in San Francisco last year, nearly half, or 1,470, were smartphone-related, according to police figures provided to HuffPost.

The spike in thefts has forced police departments to create special undercover units aimed at catching phone thieves. The human toll of phone robberies is also rising, as some victims lose not just their phones, but also their lives.

Last April, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile agreed to begin sharing a list of serial numbers linked to stolen phones. Once the policy goes into effect by the end of this year, a phone reported stolen will no longer work on any major U.S. wireless network.

Gascon, however, said the stolen phone database “looks good but is nothing more than smoke and mirrors."

A similar stolen phone blacklist launched in the United Kingdom a decade ago has not stopped phone thefts. Instead, it drove the black market overseas, because foreign wireless carriers don’t participate in the database.

Even if an iPhone is blacklisted, it can still connect to Wi-Fi hotspots to download games and music, browse the Web, make Skype calls and send text messages using WhatsApp, a popular Internet-based texting application.

“I’m very disturbed by the fact that the mobile communication industry, both at the carrier level and the manufacturer level, is so slow to respond to a problem that has been emerging for easily the last four or five years,” Gascon said.

“There are not a lot of times when we can create technological solutions to a problem,” he added. “This is one we can.”

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Nadav Nirenberg Recovers Stolen iPhone Via OKCupid Online Dating Profile

We're all just looking for love, right? That and the occasional lost iPhone. This is what happens when those searches collide.

When Nadav Nirenberg lost his iPhone in the back of a cab on New Year's Eve, the 27-year-old Brooklyn musician called it multiple times, hoping to recover the device. Despite leaving messages promising a reward, it became clear his phone was in the hands of someone with no intention of giving it back.

Worse, Nirenberg soon realized the thief had logged into his dating profile on OKCupid, and was hitting on women. "Not only is he stealing my phone," Nirenberg recalled of the thief in a post on his blog, "he's creepy and disturbing."

So he decided to catch the thief using the power of seduction. Nirenberg created a fake OKCupid account pretending to be "Jennifer," a 24-year-old woman who had recently moved to the area and was looking for love.

"Jennifer" struck up an online conversation with the thief -- "I used lots of winks and smiley faces so I would seem like a girl," Nirenberg told the New York Post -- and after a couple hours of online flirting, suggested they meet for a glass of wine. Lest you doubt the sheer quantity of flirting, here's a screenshot of "Jennifer's" email inbox. The thief's screen name is "SamIAmnt."

Nirenberg directed the thief to his apartment for a 7:00 p.m. rendezvous, where the punctual criminal soon appeared, “clean-shaven, doused in cologne and holding a bottle of wine.

"He was ready for a date,” Nirenberg told the Post. But that changed quickly when Nirenberg, armed with a large hammer, tapped the thief on the shoulder, handed him $20 as a peace offering and asked for his phone back.

Nirenberg described the man as a "small Indian dude," and said he thinks he was the New Year's Eve cab driver. After handing over the phone, the thief hurried off in shame, but not before Nirenberg told him, "You smell great, though."

Nirenberg has since updated his online dating profile with an acknowledgment: "Sorry if you've received weird messages from this account." He told the Huffington Post he plans to delete the account in the near future.

PHOTO of Nirenberg's soon-to-be-deleted OKCupid profile:

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