Comments on: Superhero saves lost cell phones

YouGetItBack.com brings its lost and found service to North American cell phones.

[moopenguin32]

As of now, it is only compatible with Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, and Panasonic phones (select models of each kind of course). I wonder how long it will take them to expand the list of supported phones. I guess we'll see.

[Erickschon]

This is so easy to circumvent it is comical. Just remove the SIM card and put your own in. Done deal. This is exactly what you would do when you steall a phone, this does nothing to help recover your phone. When your phone is stolen you call your carrier and they deactivate your account which disables your phone. Ridiculous rip off.

[JubaTester]

I tired this and hey presto it does detect the change in SIM because my phone locked even with my wifes sim in it........!!!! nice

[paulincork]

Hi my name is Paul Prendergast I am one of the co founders of yougetitback.com. Thanks for the comments.
Erickschon - you are correct that would be fatal flaw and is the major concern with network based security, oce the sim is changed it doesnt work. Our software IDS the new sim card. Our new build ( coming out in a few weeks) will autolock the phone on sim change ( you can set whitelists). We will be announching this and a number of major advances in the next build.

Re new platforms Winmo and iphone are on the development plan. Once we have a timeline we will be announcing.

Jubatester - thanks for the positive feedback.

[paulincork]

Hi my name is Paul Prendergast I am one of the co founders of yougetitback.com. Thanks for the comments.
Erickschon - you are correct that would be fatal flaw and is the major concern with network based security, oce the sim is changed it doesnt work. Our software IDS the new sim card. Our new build ( coming out in a few weeks) will autolock the phone on sim change ( you can set whitelists). We will be announching this and a number of major advances in the next build.

Re new platforms Winmo and iphone are on the development plan. Once we have a timeline we will be announcing.

Jubatester - thanks for the positive feedback.