Great answer @simpleD!!
“Step One: This phone was lost in a Redwood City bar;
Step Two: (nervous cough);
Step Three: They got it last week.
They need to fill us in about Step Two. A reader isn’t going to assume that it turned up in the mail one day in a padded mailer with no return address accompanied by an unsigned note reading “Big fan of the site, thought you’d be interested in this” printed in Comic Sans.
Did Gizmodo pay somebody for this phone?
Was this phone actually found in a bar? Or was it stolen from the Apple campus?
The second-most-serious question: did somebody steal it from the Apple campus with the intent of selling it to a news site?
The single most serious question: was Gizmodo in any way responsible for the theft of an Apple prototype?
These are all reasonable questions. Gizmodo really needs to address them.”
From your source does raise quite a few eye brows I’m sure.