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The Mobile Manager software from Synchronica, when installed on your phone, can remotely lock or delete data to ensure that thieves don't access sensitive information on your device. Not only that, when remotely activated, the software and make the phone play back an insane female scream designed to alert people that the phone's been stolen.
The only way to disable the scream is to reflash the internal memory of the phone. Otherwise, removing the battery or shutting off the phone will disable the scream, but render the phone useless—it's off, duh.
The Scream [Synchronica]
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This is perhaps the best idea I've ever seen. Of course I would have two follow up questions. 1) Does it have to be a scream, can you make it replay a ringtone or mp3 over and over again? 2) How hard would it be to install this on other people's phones? Say if they left it on their desk for five or ten minutes. Just curious.
I understand (through the BBC's DIGITAL PLANET podcast) that the scream is just an mp3 file, so it really can be anything. Pranking will probably depend on knowing a password, which anybody who subscribes to this service will surely have activated.
So instead of increasing the chances you'll get your phone back, you really just increase the chances the thiever will heave it against a brick wall? Or..uh you know take the battery out lol.
Well, like laptops, a corporate phone's data is worth more than the phone itself. So having the phone heaved against a wall isn't a big consideration.
Phones can be replaced, easily. Data on phones, if leaked to a competitor, is a much more pricier thing.
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