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Unless someone flies in a drone and picks it up.


It never occurred to me until now that you could use drones to commit petty theft. Not even of someone else's goods--stolen credit card + random residential address + drone waiting to pluck the package off the doorstep = profusion of "brand-new-in-box" laptops into the secondary market.

I suppose the challenge would be hiding the drone, especially before drones become a ubiquitous consumer-good... but I suppose you don't have to meet them at home; any flat rooftop is a valid place to drop a package to go collect, or a valid "overnight parking" destination.




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