The basic ideas for the protection of mobile devices from theft are reduced to trying to prevent the further use of the mobile phone or laptop, as often brings more harm others from accessing stored data in its memory, and not the material damage. Intel one time tried to introduce the technology tracking stolen laptops, many manufacturers offer a service for remote removal of encrypting key that makes the stored data on the hard disk unreadable.
South Korean authorities issued a relevant legislative initiative. All sold in the period from now until the second quarter of 2014, the country will have to be equipped with smart phones featuring remote shutdown (kill switch) to reduce the number of thefts. The user can independently after the loss of a smartphone, disable it forever, and even formatting will not help to revive the unit, as the authors of the initiative.
The Korean manufacturer Pantech already offers such a feature from February 2013, the company now plans to add the ability to track the location of a stolen smartphone using the system GPS.