The case of the mystery gadget
There appears to be a phantom device that’s being used by car thieves in Malaysia. The unknown technology is able to detect which cars have laptops hidden in them, making their thievery much more efficient. Many people take the time to carefully hide anything expensive from sight, but this won’t keep you safe:
Malaysia’s New Straits Times reports that tech-savvy thieves in the district of Petaling Jaya have been using a “special gadget” in order to identify which parked cars have laptops hidden inside of them, with 255 laptops stolen from cars there so far this year.
The police, who have not been able to get their hands on one of these mysterious devices, are stumped and are recommending that people carry their laptops with them rather than leave them in their cars.
The fact that nobody knows how this device works or what it looks like it adds some spice to the whole mystery.
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