iPhones, activation and identifiers

As I was talking to my mother on my phone this evening it was literally taken from my hand. My sister is currently in hospital, and I was reassuring her that things were going to be OK. When the phone was stolen, she literally was about to have a heart attack until I could get to a phone and call her back to reassure her that nothing had happened.

It was an iPhone. You cannot use an iPhone without activating it with Apple.
I want it to scream to the world that it was stolen. Every time it is able to make a data connection it should recognize that it is stolen and say ‘fuck you, I’m not working until you return me to my proper owner’. That’s what I want.
If a developer ever finds an iPhone 4S that returns a device identifier of efd79415f51aa99472c5149aa46b0897def18f9b, then know that it is stolen, and that they should return it to a cop-shop.