letters patent can mean everything or nothing , so take this with big ol’ Strategic Arms Limitation Talks grains , but Apple ’s cerebration about seriouslybeefing up its happen My iPhone service . Most notable ? fresh means to spy on a thief and remotely beat your stuff .
Patently Apple reportsthat the improved security measures would let you return your phone useless without erasing it entirely ( so you could retrieve your data if you ever get it back ) , and would sport a “ surveillance mode , ” in which “ the mobile equipment records or captures selective information associated with one or more of user action , ambient auditory sensation , images , a flight of the equipment , and transmits the record or captured information to the web imagination . ” So , spying on the guy who rip you off . This could be a immense help to law and/or iPhone vigilante .
Again , just a patent , but we would n’t mind finding these powers in our bridge player when our phone ’s taken from it . [ Patently Apple ]
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