Hilariously, this could actually be in violation of New York wiretapping laws.

Speaking as someone who has been cheated on I'd say not many people can honestly blame him for violating trust. He was trying to find out if she was lying and not only was she violating his trust by lying but also by screwing some other guy.

Wow. This story is wrong on so many levels.

Humans suck.

Still, it's cool that Apple actually did something useful for a change, even if it was inadvertent.

Good for Thomas, cheating people do not deserve any privacy ...

Aidinthel:
This is great. I love it when both sides are in the wrong; it means I can sit back and feel superior to them both.

Wouldn't say he's in the wrong.

I'm against divorce, but that's not what I'm referring to.

Ah, love it. He's in the wrong because he correctly suspected she was cheating and took steps to find proof.

Basically in a court of law, the two can be split apart, yet logically the husband will NOT win any claim arguments as it could be seen as schemeing on his part. Though the wife CAN counter-sue for illegal tracking/intrusion of personal privacy against her husband.

Bravo Mr. Thomas, good on you. I hope divorce proceedings go well and that the bitch gets nothing. Cheating is bad, and people who cheat on their spouses deserve bad things.

And to all those who will complain about it being wiretapping or how he was being just as deceitful as his (soon to be ex-) wife, if he had hired a private investigator would anyone have given a damn?

I violated an ex-girlfriends trust once by logging into her Myspace page (this was several years ago) when I suspected her of not being true. Turns out she was cheating on me with my cousin and supposed best friend.

Well played Mr. Thomas.

Yeech.

It sounds like they deserve each other.

I do hope she nails his ass for invasion of privacy.

Still, I do hope they both enjoy their divorce. **sigh** This is why people shouldn't get married unless they set ground rules they can both live with.

So basically... all the girls I know who have this Iphone4, I can instead of facerape them I could at a party, ask to send a message, install this on their phone and get some really cool homemade porn...
*walks of thinking about all the glorious...*
Kidding kidding (I havne't even ever faceraped anyone)
Pretty cool story thou, taking things into your own hands so to say.

Wow...there really -is- an app for everything

Now let's wait for "Alibi App."

Good for him on catching his wife cheating. He wouldn't have had to invade her privacy had she not invaded someone else's privates.

For some reason this reminds me of those idiots who let the guy get remote access to their webcams and told them to go to the bathroom via fake windows messages...

Can't say the guy was in the right here, but personally, would anyone have cared if he spent 2000$ for a private investigator to tell him the same thing that the phone told him for 200-500 bucks?

If his wife -wasn't- cheating on him, I'd be more angry at the guy for invasion of privacy, but he was obviously suspecting something, so he chose to investigate. (honestly people, do you really expect someone who's cheating on you to tell you straight to your face that they are?)

Wow, there really is an app for everything...

Although, I wonder why you needed an app for it. Don't most phones come with a sort of location thing already? It helped me to find my phone at least...

On the one hand, if you are so SURE about cheating that you'd violate someone's PHONE to find out, then the marriage is pretty much over.
On the other hand, if you're SUSPICIOUS enough to violate someone's life in any way sniffing for PROOF, then the trust is gone and the marriage is pretty much over.
In other words, iPhone has replaced the Private Eye as this year's "find the evidence I need to end my marriage NOW" tool.

I have been caught with odd messages on MY phone, and I lost the girl who found them, but I'm better off without an un-trusting, hateful, argumentative person in my life, I tell you what.

If the press publishes HIS name, I see him AND her being dateless for quite sometime.

Johann610:
On the one hand, if you are so SURE about cheating that you'd violate someone's PHONE to find out, then the marriage is pretty much over.
On the other hand, if you're SUSPICIOUS enough to violate someone's life in any way sniffing for PROOF, then the trust is gone and the marriage is pretty much over.
In other words, iPhone has replaced the Private Eye as this year's "find the evidence I need to end my marriage NOW" tool.

He didnt "violate" her phone. Its not like he went and read her text messages or hacked her email. She is the stupid one for not making sure her phone is secure.

Do you take a brand new computer for a spin around the internets? Or do you pop in a firewall install cd or a malware/spyware blocker first?

Johann610:

I have been caught with odd messages on MY phone, and I lost the girl who found them, but I'm better off without an un-trusting, hateful, argumentative person in my life, I tell you what.

When you say "odd messages," what exactly do you mean?

Its going to be hilarious when she turns around and sues him for doing this. Between personal privacy and tampering with property, you just know there's a broken law there somehwere.

Picking up someone's phone, installing software without telling them, and running it without their permission? I consider that, at BEST, virus-like behavior.
But to take your argument at face value? If a spouse has to SECURE their phone against another spouse doing things like this, and it is EXPECTED that the another spouse will, then the trust is gone and the marriage is pretty much over anyway.

For the record, I was planning some activities--with my friends--that were outside of her comfort zone. That's my story.

emeraldrafael:
Its going to be hilarious when she turns around and sues him for doing this. Between personal privacy and tampering with property, you just know there's a broken law there somehwere.

It's a tort law--civil wrong. Pretty sure that this is LEVERAGE in divorce court.

vansau:
Honestly, I'm not sure who's more in the wrong here, since both parties violated each other's trust.

It's her. The one having sex with a third party. That is the person more in the wrong here. Cheating on your spouse is a worse thing than installing an app on someone's phone. This is not debatable.

I personally believe...

lol anyway, I do think she's definitely in the wrong here. I suppose in the olden days this would just be akin to following his wife to make see if she's cheating on him

To all those who's saying he's "in the wrong", he may very well be, but here's a question:

--Was the phone in his name purchased by him under his own account?

if "Yes") Then he was perfectly in the legal rights to put whatever tracking programs and devices on his own property under ownership of his own account.

if "No") Then he's not only in the wrong, but he's going against several cyber-based laws enacted over the past decade. Anyone recall that husband who go into trouble for logging into his wife's Facebook account even when he had readily access to it? Well, he got into trouble because it wasn't his property or his to access without permission. This is the same concept.

That's wonderful. I see nothing wrong with what he did. He bought the phone in the first place and had every right to load whatever the hell he wanted to. Besides, he wasn't the one cheating, so if that's what it takes to prove his wife was, more power to him. Put the screws to her in court now.

Canus:

vansau:
Honestly, I'm not sure who's more in the wrong here, since both parties violated each other's trust.

It's her. The one having sex with a third party. That is the person more in the wrong here. Cheating on your spouse is a worse thing than installing an app on someone's phone. This is not debatable.

You and I might believe that, but then again we are sane. I can not say the same for everyone.

The fact of the matter is... he wasn't wrong about not trusting her.

Comparing "installing a app to check where you think your unfaithful wife is, and then being proved right" with "cheating on your husband is laughable.

What she did was far worse.