Like leather jackets and basketball shoes in recent decades, the iPod is now a target of theft. Yet, despite the increasing numbers of iPod thefts in the streets and subways in New York, people refuse to take measures to hide the fact that they are listening to the iPod, such as replacing the distinctive white earphones or not waving the iPod around in public. As one iPod user claimed, "if you use others [sic] headphones it's not a status symbol anymore" (K, Comment posting).