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New Lookout security feature sends secret selfie of smartphone thieves

  • 01-06-2014 6:46pm
    #1
    Impetus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭


    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/37090-new-lookout-security/

    Big deal. Steal a phone and put some black tape over the camera before you do anything else.

    Dumbware posing as a "security" app.

    While I hate Apple with a vengeance, due to its walled garden mentality, for once the company is (accidentally probably) doing something intelligent.


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  • #2
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    If data protection laws over here are anything to go by it will be useless anyway. To use the image you would need to have warned the thief that the image was being recorded in the first place.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/dunnes-stores-monitored-staff-suspected-of-stealing-goujons-1.1770261


  • #3
    Impetus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    Sticker: WARNING: Hands-up. You are on TV right now. Drop the phone in an envelope and mail it to PO Box 123456........ Before this phone explodes in your face.

    The dataprivacy.ie guys who hang out over the supermarket in Portarlington will be gunning after you any minute..... This label is to advise you that this phone is absolutely loaded with my personal info - emails, contacts, etc and anything you say or do can and will be taken down and photographed and used as evidence against you. Govern yourself accordingly.....


  • #4
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    This new feature for Lookout Mobile Security can be triggered by somewhat suspicious activity, such as entering the phone’s passcode incorrectly, removing the SIM card, enabling flight mode, switching off the device, or attempting to uninstall the security software – all actions which Lookout has determined smartphone thieves are likely to do.

    My camera is gonna blow a fuse.
    by taking a snapshot it has dubbed the ‘theftie’.

    Awww, a new word. Title needs editing, put in theftie.
    However, with all major smartphone producers – including Apple – preparing to introduce built-in anti-theft measures by July 2015, we could start seeing features like this on handsets straight out of the box.

    N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images


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