Attacks now are carried out almost daily in Dagestan against police and security forces, who respond with special operations of their own to wipe out the militants.
It was demonstrated at the Ekoparty security conference last weekend, during which time presenter Ravi Borgaonkar also showed how a different code could even wipe your SIM card.
In July McAfee bought tenCube, a company that runs a mobile security service called WaveSecure that similar to Lookout can remotely locate phones, back up data or wipe it altogether.