[riansanderson]

This is a thing.

Maybe this isn’t the real world, but a few months ago in the Apple parking lots in Cupertino targeted breakins were happening on a daily basis.

Once they stepped up security patrols thieves moved on to downtown Palo Alto and Mountain View.

[freehunter]

Break-ins yes. But hibernating laptops being discovered via bluetooth? Cameras?

Thieves break into cars when they know there will be valuables inside the car. Now, are they running Bluetooth scanners to determine that, or is the fact that they're parking in an Apple parking lot enough?

From the article:

>San Francisco saw a 24 percent increase in vehicle break-ins between 2016 and 2017

Is that increase due to Bluetooth tracking? Or just all break-ins? This is exactly what I'm talking about... just because break-ins are happening more often and also unrelatedly Bluetooth can be discovered wireless, does not mean the two things are in any way connected.

Possible, yes. Actually happening in the real world? Well, we have an anecdote that the author promises us "isn’t just some crazy theory Joe and I have" and an anecdote from a police representative surrounded by statistics on all break-ins regardless of if Bluetooth was involved.

I mean... the story is about a thief who broke a window and stole a backpack that was in plain sight for anyone passing by the car. Absolutely nothing to do with Bluetooth at all.

[perl4ever]

It's simultaneously true that people believe or at least repeat any story that triggers their prejudices and that people discount anything that violates them, particularly when they haven't seen it firsthand.

So just because those impulses are opposed, doesn't mean that one is more right than the other in general.