A Gizmodo editor is accepting awkward by the continued arm of Steve Jobs afterwards California admiral raided his home and bedeviled computers and tech accessories afterward his betrayal of Apple's newest iPhone prototype.
Gawker Media, the ancestor aggregation of Gizmodo, anon issued a columnist absolution accusatory the seek and access by a computer abomination assignment force, at the home of editor Jason Chen in Fremont, Calif., about 25 afar south of Oakland.
Nick Denton, who runs Gawker media, said California law, which protects journalists from accepting to about-face over bearding sources or abstruse actual to law administration during a search, should administer to Chen's property.
"Are bloggers journalists? I assumption we'll acquisition out," Denton wrote in an email.
Last week, Gizmodo had one of the Web's hottest scoops if it acquaint photos of an Apple accessory that appeared to be a ancestor for the next-generation iPhone. It had been begin in a bar in Redwood City, Calif., about 25 afar south of San Francisco, and awash for $5,000 by an alien being to Gizmodo, a apparatus blog.
After Chen, 29, acquaint photos and data about the phone, Apple accustomed the accessory belonged to the company, and Gizmodo alternate it.
But that didn't stop Apple from calling authorities to address that "there had been a theft," according to Stephen Wagstaffe, the arch agent commune advocate for San Mateo County.
Wagstaff said the commune advocate had not absitively whether they would accompany accuse adjoin Chen, but did say that the accreditation declared that the affirmation bedeviled may accept been complex in a felony. Members of the Rapid Administration Allied Computer Team took several computers, harder drives, agenda cameras, corpuscle phones and added gadgets, additional Chen's American Express bill and copies of his checks.
Chen said a detective told him the seek stemmed from "a confounding that could be austere up if I answered some questions." He banned to acknowledgment questions, according to the New York Daily News.
