When your address the incriminating. This couple was accused of stealing … – Daily News – Lisbon

mobile location applications robbed always point to the home of an American house that no longer knows what to do

To Christina Lee and Michael Saba is already receive regular angry people at home. A month after moving, a family very angry appeared to them door and demanded them to return the stolen object. A short time later was a group of friends who did the same, and then another, and another. Appear in the morning, the afternoon and the night and pediem all furious, the same:. The phone back

The couple lives in Atlanta, in the United States, and for some reason the two unaware, the address is often pointed out by application of location lost or stolen mobile phones.

In the last year were accused of theft by 12 people who showed up at their door, sometimes avidly by police count the Fusion. In a month, the couple went through this situation four times and one of the situations the police broke them home port. “My biggest fear is that someone dangerous or violent come to our house because of this,” said Michael. “If it does not know if our explanation will come,” said the engineer, who closely see how people react badly, even violently when they feel they are being cheated. And although many believe the story of the couple, some are suspicious.

The most serious problem was when, in addition to being charged with robbery, Michael and Christina were accused of kidnapping and his house was raided by police. In June, when a minor disappeared and the application to locate mobile phones reported that this was the house of two young 20 years, Michael and Christina were questioned by police and forced to wait an hour in the street while the decided authorities searched the house or not. “This shows how insecure and unreliable are some of the new technologies,” said Saba.

The most disconcerting is that the missing mobile phones are all different and we still can not identify the cause of the error. Iphones and androids of various brands of different operators and using different location applications, point in the same house all the time.

Ken Westin, a computer security expert, told Fusion that to find a lost phone , applications rely on GPS information, satellite, after the telephone towers, then the WiFi networks and then the IP address.

The analyst thinks the cause could be an error in the triangulation of towers phone and gives the example of the case of a man whose house was right in the middle of three towers and had the same problem that Michael and Christina. However, there is no way to confirm this theory, since the companies that own the telephone towers do not respond as well as the operators and brands of mobile phones.