Please, please, please don’t try this yourself. Report it to the police.

I still think Apple implemented this feature as a response to the wonderful software Undercover which was built for the mac (I have installed this on both mine and my wife’s macbooks). Unfortunately the iPhone version is vastly inferior in my opinion and I will be waiting until the mobile me location and iPhone Undercover technologies converge before buying it for the iPhone.

It is tempting to say that Apple are verging on the irresponsible with their actions in making this functionality available. I like the idea of tracking my lost iPhone and being able to remotely force it to make noise to find it down the back of the sofa, but the very real possibility of trying to track down a stolen iPhone concerns me. With America being the litigious place it is, I won’t be surprised to read about a case brought against Apple for somebody claiming that Apple allowed them to approach a dangerous individual who had stolen their iPhone and getting physically injured as a result of using the new mobile me service.