Thieves cut hole in a bathroom wall, steal $500k worth of items from Apple Store

No true burglar?

You've got everything from an episode of Bones, to the Coen Bro's Ladykillers, to Conan Doyle's Red-Headed League.

It's a popular method, at least in media.

What purpose is a burglar alarm going to serve in a Seattle suburb? The police are not going to come running and engage in a car chase or arrest them with prejudice. At best you get a report for the insurance write-off. Private security won't do anything either for fear of lawsuits. This isn't Texas where theft and larceny can be pursued by private citizens with lethal force. The iDevices will brick themselves automatically in time. The only items the thieves can profit from are the accessories and parts.

500 iPhones that are about to become tracking targets for the police, you mean.

And, what are you going to do if the motion sensor goes off? Send an employee (not hardly)? Call the police automatically (too many false alarms)?

I laugh about "organized"--sure they wore masks and gloves. But they stole iPhones when the eminently easier to fence MacBooks were sitting right next to them. WTF?

yea i'm fairly certain activation lock would prevent the phones from working, one interesting fact is that they can disable accessories based off the serial number, iphones won't connect to an accessory if apple identifies it as banned which is the meaning behind those "accessory not compatible" messages. this happened a while back when apple bricked all those 2-in-1 lightning passthrough + headphone jack adapters overnight with a software update, but even if they could i doubt they'd do it to their own cables.

They sell the devices to people who have no reason to suspect they've been stolen, but the devices are deactivated by Apple and they won't work. Thieves get their money, ordinary people get the shaft. Just like regular capitalism.

Think of all the ad revenue and app store sales they could lose though.