Leaving a calling card on your memory stick can enable recovery
One thing I’m observing from the early results of the HSP is that a significant number of people are trying to find out how to locate the owner of the device they have found.
In Stream 0, there are no outside markings with contact. In the first two cases of people making contact, they took enough care in opening the files that they didn’t trigger a request to the website, and were not tracked. They did find a plain text file entitled “owner_contact_info.txt”, which contained a phone number, email address and physical address, as well as the HSP website address.
Both finders called the phone number to indicate that they had found the device, and were presumably willing to return it. So, it may facilitate recovery to some extent if you have such a file on your mobile device with enough information to enable somebody to contact you if they find it. Of course, depending on the type of information on the device and on your sensitivity to being identified, you may not want to divulge any personal information, as you don’t know if the potential finder will have good or bad intentions.
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Leaving a calling card on your memory stick can enable recovery
One thing I’m observing from the early results of the HSP is that a significant number of people are trying to find out how to locate the owner of the device they have found.
In Stream 0, there are no outside markings with contact. In the first two cases of people making contact, they took enough care in opening the files that they didn’t trigger a request to the website, and were not tracked. They did find a plain text file entitled “owner_contact_info.txt”, which contained a phone number, email address and physical address, as well as the HSP website address.
Both finders called the phone number to indicate that they had found the device, and were presumably willing to return it. So, it may facilitate recovery to some extent if you have such a file on your mobile device with enough information to enable somebody to contact you if they find it. Of course, depending on the type of information on the device and on your sensitivity to being identified, you may not want to divulge any personal information, as you don’t know if the potential finder will have good or bad intentions.