Screaming Phones - Anti-Theft Device

A new anti-theft system has been designed that aims to significantly reduce the current rise in mobile phone theft.

Remote XT is a system whereby, upon discovering the theft of a phone, the user can ring a call center who will then send out a signal to the robbed phone. This signal destroys all the data on the phone, before emitting a high pitched annoying screetch, rendering the device completely unusable.

“We also then set a small bomb off, if you like, that completely wipes the data…if it has genuinely been stolen then it renders the phone useless to the thief,” says Mark Whiteman, MD of Remote XT.

The noise can be stopped by simply removing the battery, however, upon re-insertion the noise continues. This may provide a temporary measure that can be employed whilst work on reverse engineering the phone takes place. Whilst it hasnt been confirmed, the noise is probably active with any power source, whether battery or mains.

Strangely enough, I’m told that Hyper, from Hackers Voice Radio, came up with this idea a while ago, as mention at the end of the HVTV2 hacker video.