Prompt Cast
Strange Tech Mystery: Couple's House Mistakenly Identified as Location for Lost Smartphones
TLDR A couple in Georgia is plagued by people coming to their house in search of lost smartphones due to a local database error. The couple discovers that their house is surrounded by cell phone towers, leading to the mistaken identification, and a cyber security expert helps them uncover the cause of the tech mystery.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
A couple in Georgia is experiencing a strange tech mystery where people keep coming to their house looking for their lost smartphones, and no one has been able to figure out why.
03:53
A couple in Georgia has been experiencing a strange tech mystery where people keep coming to their house looking for their lost smartphones, and it has taken over their lives.
07:01
Mike has discovered that his house is surrounded by three cell phone towers, which he believes is causing the tech mystery, but none of the phone companies or government entities are willing to help him.
10:22
The host takes a break from investigating the tech mystery and explores the neighborhood, discovering that there are two distinct types of houses on the block - well-kept family homes and abandoned, destroyed houses.
14:30
David, a cyber security expert who looks eerily like the host, arrives at the house and starts pulling out gadgets to solve the tech mystery, showing a graph that indicates the presence of nearby Verizon and AT&T cell phone towers.
18:10
A cyber security expert uses a secret menu on his phone to investigate a suspicious spike in frequency, which could potentially be the FBI using a stingray device to spy on people's phones.
21:46
A cyber security expert discovers that a local database in Atlanta made a mistake and assigned the wrong address to a list of devices, causing them to all be located at an arbitrary point down the street from Christina and Mike's house.
25:26
The GPS overcorrects and sends everyone to Mike and Christina's house because they are the only spot of activity in the area, and while it's a complicated problem to fix, they are grateful to have a direction to go in.
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