'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones 222
wiredmikey writes with a quote from an article at Secury Week: "In order to get a look at what happens when a smartphone is lost, Symantec conducted an experiment, called the Honey Stick Project, where 50 fully-charged mobile devices were loaded with fake personal and corporate data and then dropped in publicly accessible spots in five different cities ...Tracking showed that 96-percent of the devices were accessed once found (PDF), and 70-percent of them were accessed for personal and business related applications and information. Less than half of the people who located the intentionally lost devices attempted to locate the owner. Interestingly enough, only two phones were left unaccounted for; the others were all found."
Re:Some people are good citizens (Score:5, Funny)
If you were truly a "good" citizen you would have dropped the BlackBerry off in the nearest trash can.
Re:Less than half (Score:5, Funny)
>> "Mom"... that's the number I call.
Well, that's one dating strategy.
Re:Commercial? (Score:5, Funny)
and D) Drain your wallet
Re:hehe (Score:2, Funny)
Has worked 3 times so far :)
I think you've got a problem if you've lost your phone 3 times already.
I've lost my phone maybe ONCE in the span of 12 years. Maybe because I'm pretty sure it was 0, but I'm hedging my bets.
Re:If I were to find one... (Score:5, Funny)
I found a phone once while on travel. I opened it up and called the number listed as "Home".
The person who answered accused me of stealing his phone.
I told him fuck off and that I was throwing his phone in the garbage.
Then I had a change of heart and left the phone with the front desk of my hotel, texted "Mom" where the phone was and that her son is an ass.