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Security Feature for your Devices



This article is about a way to completely stop your devices from being stolen. The device can be anything from Mobile Phones to Laptops. The idea is to register your device with an Aadhaar Card when you buy it. When you lose your device, go to the service center, and give your biometric verification along with Aadhaar, like scanning your eye and giving your fingerprints. Upon receiving the complaint, the device firm will block the device, which can only be switched on when the firm gets back the device. Devices should be designed in a way, that re-installation of the Operating System, by erasing the old ones should not be allowed, when the device is blocked by the firm.

Buy with Registration

Whenever you buy a device, from Mobile Phones to Laptops, Even Smart TVs, Earphones, or Tablets, it should be registered with your Aadhaar Card. The process is simple, you don't need to keep records of your bill. Because most can't keep their purchase bill (Invoice) for years. All you need to do is register your device with your Aadhaar card. It can be any Identity card in other parts of the world, only that it should be a biometric Identity Card. It is to make sure that the device firm, that manufactures the device, knows surely that the proper owner of the device is complaining when the device is lost. If you want to sell or buy used phones, buyer should go to the nearest service center along with the seller. Then the device will be registered on the buyer's Aadhaar card, after processing both buyer and seller's biometrics.

Complain about your stolen device with your device's firm

If you lose your device, go to the nearest service center of your device's firm with your Aadhaar card. Register that your device is stolen. They will accept your complaint after verifying your biometrics like the scan of your eye and fingerprints. Once it is registered, they will block your device, which means it will be switched off. No way will be there to start the device.

Security Feature to Shut Down the Devices

The problem with the current security system is if a device is stolen, it can be reused by re-installing a new Operating System and making it a new Mobile Phone or Device afresh. The Security Feature we should introduce is a simple one. Just switch off the device forever, until the owner or device firm gets back the device. If police find the device from a thief, they simply need to give all the devices back to the respective firm. Only the device firm security office, in district headquarters or state headquarters, can be able to switch on the device back. After switching them on, they will check who has complained of a lost device. Inform them that their device is retrieved. They can come to the device firm and get back their device. But only after verifying their Aadhaar Card and biometrics again.

Breaking the parts and selling it

Why won't people break the phone and sell their parts? Mostly mobile phones don't get worn out. By the time, their mobiles become old enough for repair, new models come, and they buy new model phones. Almost all Mobile repair shops deal only with software and not hardware. They simply change the settings and make money. Still, we need to make the costliest part of the device not to work, like flash memory and processors, if it is stolen. Our security feature should disable the device's processors (by embedding small memory in processor) so that it cannot be switched on, even if they put it as a replacement on another old device.

In the long run, theft will be obsolete 

In the long run, theft will be obsolete, because no one will risk stealing without any benefit to them. If they get caught stealing, they will go to jail. Even if they are not caught, no use to them, because they can't even switch it on.


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Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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