Dateline uses ColdFusion to track stolen iPod's!
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 10:41 PM
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I'm in a corporate apartment working on-site with a client, and I'm watching Dateline NBC. They're doing a special on stolen iPods (isn't it crazy that it's that much of an icon?). They hired a private firm ("Blackfin") to write a special installation CD, repacked a bunch of brand new iPods with the special CD, and left them around for people to take.
Long story short, they just showed a clip of the URLs their special iPod installation CD hit to phish registration information of the thieves, and what did the URL say?
Something like this:
index.cfm?fuseaction=registerIpod
First moral of the story?
Don't steal.
Second moral of the story?
When you need to quickly write an app that's going both go live and work on national TV, use ColdFusion.
sal wrote on 08/01/07 11:09 PM
ahha nice!