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There are a couple of really important angles here that I failed to mention, and I'm kicking myself for that failure..... Any smartphone is likely to have sensitive personal data on it, if nothing other than contacts. And it's likely that a smartphone such as an iPhone will have sensitive data beyond contacts, possibly including MSU-sensitive data (or that for another enterprise). Obviously it's not a good practice to keep such data on a smartphone -- I'm just saying it's likely that it'll have it. So if you think about it, it's probably NEVER a good practice to give a smartphone, or any other handheld data pail, to a random person. I do not say this to pick on David, whose instincts were obviously civic.... This is stuff that doesn't occur to you (or me) at first blush. A couple of years ago my colleague Davin Granroth and I found a USB thumb drive in a microlab, no label, no way to identify. We started to plug it into a lab computer, but then we realized we might see stuff on the drive that was private. We instead left a note telling the owner to please come to the closest lost and found. It is also dangerous to plug a random USB drive into a computer, especially if you are running on a Windows admin account. /rich On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Richard Wiggins <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > The owner might benefit to have it back, in case they had phone insurance. > I believe the MSU Union building is still the best central campus lost and > found. > > Or, if you wanted to go way above the call of duty, take it to an AT&T > store and see if they could look up the owner using the serial number. > > /rich > > PS -- well, I suppose it's possible the owner ditched it iPhone in favor of > a newer model from LG. :-) > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, David McFarlane <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> Anyone have any use for a broken iPhone? I found one cracked open on the >> sidewalk while biking in this afternoon, let me know and I can send it >> through campus mail. >> >> -- dkm >> > >