Trying to chase down and accost the person who stole your smartphone might not be the best-plan, which is why you might want to take a less risky approach of remotely snapping a picture of the thief with your phone’s front-facing camera. BBC News brings us word that a security feature on a stolen HTC smartphone has snapped a picture of its alleged thief and sent it to its owner’s primary email address. The security feature is designed to snap a picture with the device’s front-facing camera after the person using the device enters in too many incorrect passwords or PINs into the phone’s lock screen. While BBC News doesn’t specify which app was used to snap the picture, we



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