Technology mayhem
Here's a good reason to disconnect: Cell phone snatchers target Meyerlandshoppers
Is your phone safe when you're hanging out in the mall?Courtesy photo
Put that cell phone in a pocket to keep it safe.
This week doesn't seem like a good one to live in Meyerland: First dognappers, and now KPRC is reporting that citizens' cell phones have become the hottest new target.
The Meyerland Community Improvement Association issued an email alert on Tuesday afternoon, warning that several shoppers at Meyerland Plaza have recently experienced phone theft.
But this isn't some run-of-the-mill snatching out of a pocket or a purse — the audacious thieves are grabbing victims' phones out of the victims' hands, mid-conversation.
A thief who consciously steals a technological lifeline surely doesn't have innocent motives.
A recent study commissioned by Symantec reveals the distressingly slim chance of recovering a cell phone one innocently lost or left behind (you don't even want to know what percentage of device finders accessed the phones' "Private Pix" and online banking applications), so a thief who consciously steals a technological lifeline surely doesn't have innocent motives.
The MCIA suggests Bluetooth headsets or other hands-free options to protect devices, but KPRC's Jennifer Bauer demonstrates how to just put them in a pocket.
Seems simple enough, right? Need we be so connected that we fail to see a technology thief barreling toward us?
