A national experiment explores the risks your smartphone and private data face daily.

1. Vancouver Calgary Ottawa
Toronto
Montreal
Halifax
What really happens
when you lose your phone?
Learn more at
go.symantec.com/HoneyStickCanada
Safeguard Your Privacy
Smartphone users must take steps to protect their private, professional, and sensitive information:
• Always use a screen-lock feature with a strong password
• Set up remote lock, tracking, and wipe capabilities
• Introduce security protocols for employees and colleagues
• Establish a process for dealing with lost or stolen phones
• Take an inventory of your company’s mobile phones
You can replace your device, but if your data falls into the wrong hands, it is impossible to turn back.
Protect your professional and personal data and see that your colleagues and friends do the same.
You can get your phone back. You can’t get your privacy back.
A national experiment explores the risks your smartphone and private data face daily
SYMANTEC CANADA HONEY STICK PROJECT
I found your phone downtown
before the snowstorm. It is still
in working order. I went through
your contacts to find your email
address to contact you.
I would like a finders’ fee
because I could have left your
phone to be completely
destroyed by the snow and/or
found by someone and sold
your personal information to
who knows who.
Mr. Slick :)
EMAIL
Phone
#32
Offer to
Return
Copyright © 2014 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. 04/14
ATTEMPTED ACCESS
93%
63%
83%
72%
50%
Accessed
the devices
to sensitive information
Clicked through to login
and password screens
Viewed
corporate email
Viewed
personal data
Viewed
private photos
of users tried to
return the phones
55%
Left on a bus bench, Phone #32 went on a 4-day journey.
Its social networking, passwords, webmail, and online banking
apps were accessed throughout the trip.
CALGARY
FEB 14
4:45pm Phone is dropped
5:10pm Social networking and contacts
apps accessed
5:19pm HR salaries app accessed
5:20pm Email sent to address listed as
“Me,” offering to return phone
5:55pm Passwords app accessed
7:05pm Social networking and online
banking apps accessed
FEB 17
12:00am Webmail, passwords,
social networking, and
contacts accessed
FEB 18
10:00am Contacts and HR salaries accessed;
phone call made to address listed as
“home,” leaving a message offering
to return the phone
1:20pm Contacts accessed
2:30pm Contacts accessed
2:30pm Disappears
5:10pm
5:20pm
7:05pm
12am
10am
1:20pm
2:30pm
Without password
protection, they are left
in high-traffic areas
across Canada.
Phones are loaded with decoy
data, including bank accounts,
HR salaries, personal photos,
and others documents.
60 smartphones
60
are intentionally “lost” across
Canada and monitored to
see what happens.