If it was not interesting enough that Apple managed to get police to execute a search warrant on a hack's house for a “stolen phone” which was actually in its possession, it seems that a naval cryptographer was involved in the story.

A 27-year-old University of California at Berkeley student Sage Robert Wallower has been named as the go-between for Hogan and the tech sites. Wallower, a former Navy cryptologic technician, previously worked as a computer security officer at Securitas and possesses "top-secret clearance."

Wallower admitted that he was not the person who found the phone, and that he did not see or touch it in any manner. He said he did know who found it, but he didn't identify anyone else.

Wallower reportedly shopped the device around to technology sites on behalf of the finder of the phone a bloke called Hogan. Wallower and Hogan may have been students at Santa Barbara City College at the same time.

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