What happens if you lose your mobile phone

Here's What Really Happens When You Lose a Smartphone

Anyone who has left a phone behind at a bus stop or bar recognizes the feeling of leaving your life's story opened up to the juiciest page. Everything stored in a phone—pictures, contacts, social network and banking accounts—is fair game for a stranger with fraudulent intentions. The phone's owner may never know what's been used and viewed, even after being returned. until now.

What happens if you lose your mobile phone

As part of The Symantec Smartphone Honey Stick Project. researchers intentionally "lost" 50 smartphones around New York City, Washington D.C. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ottawa, Canada. The phones were left unattended in public areas—elevators, malls, public transit stops and food courts—and equipped with a collection of simulated personal and professional data, plus tracking and monitoring software that logged the phone's finder's actions. No security features or passcodes were enabled on any of the devices; researchers wanted to observe what happens when a stranger finds a phone without any barriers between the finder and the apps or information on each device.

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