Wireless Controller Helps Recover Stolen 360

kotaku.com — A Missouri State student came back to his dorm to find his Xbox 360 stolen. Realizing the controller still connected when turned it on, he set out to find the console. And he did. Dec 14, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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fhwqhgads Dec 15, 2008

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You don't need a k-lock to keep a truly honest person honest.

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Well luckily I don't know enough about real psychiatrists to know their actual business hours... ;)

stevemax Dec 16, 2008

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You mean the guy was so desperate for his drug that he stole to buy it, and you enabled that behaviour?Sorry, but there is no way you could make this look good.

nxumdon Dec 17, 2008

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Ummm....am I the only one who sees what REALLY happened here???? And right off the bat, I'm not at all a pessimist, just a realist and one who's always watching the angles...What really went down is this, the alleged 'victim' here was actually the thief, and the supposed thief was the victim, not once, but TWICE!The alleged 'victim' broke into the 'thiefs' room, stole ONLY the controller (so that if he DID get somehow caught, he had some reasonable defense, ie. "Like I'd steal a controller, I clearly do not own an xbox 360!") and then claims that it was in fact his xbox that was stolen and only this controller left behind. We're supposed to believe that the blinking ring on the controller is enough to actually guide you to which room the console was in...RIGHHHHT...of course he knew which room it was in, he friggen' stole the controller from there! So having this 'proof' of the console being his, the controller which connects to the console, the RA goes in and STEALS the rest of the console on the real thiefs behalf...This guy claims he 'tracked the MAC address across his Campus Network' and with that info he was able to charge the 'thief'....RIGHHHHT.....but might I ask you how you were able to 'track the MAC address...across the network'...are you suggesting that your CAN (Campus Area Network) is one big flat layer 2 network/broadcast domain in which you can see each and every MAC address...now THAT seems fishy! Actually, from a networking standpoint, and knowing exactly how students are...most CANs are well segmented and thus you wouldn't track nothing outside of your local broadcast domain. And, even if this CAN was a giant flat layer 2 network, how exactly did you claim ownership of said MAC address, do you have a receipt which displays that MAC???? ;) teeheeWELL PLAYED SIR!So...there you have it...classic misdirection!!!!Cheers!