{"id":649,"date":"2007-08-03T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-08-03T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T03:53:26","slug":"dateline-exposes-ipod-thieves-via-hidden-camera-engadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/08\/dateline-exposes-ipod-thieves-via-hidden-camera-engadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Dateline “exposes” iPod thieves via hidden camera – Engadget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline “exposes” iPod thieves via hidden camera – Engadget<\/a>:
\nThere’s probably nothing quite as embarrassing as being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for stealing a measly iPod. Of course, NBC’s crack team of journalists are just trying to expose the growing trend of iPod theft in the world… or kick up their ratings. In a bizarre and somewhat convoluted “hidden camera” scheme, Dateline nabs thieves at their own game by allowing them to steal new iPods bundled with a “special” install disc which secretly hands over the user’s information to the news program. The venus-fly-trap-like plot unfolds as the crew leaves “unattended” iPods in high traffic areas, and is then shocked to see people walking off with them. With all d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dateline “exposes” iPod thieves via hidden camera – Engadget: There’s probably nothing quite as embarrassing as being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for stealing a measly iPod. Of course, NBC’s crack team of journalists are just trying to expose the growing trend of iPod theft in the world… or kick up their ratings. … Continue reading Dateline “exposes” iPod thieves via hidden camera – Engadget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-at","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}