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Good friday morning. welcome back to "starting point." stock futures are flat this morning, but you know the dow swung more than 100 points in eight of the nine trading daws in june. we saw that when the blue chips popped more than 200 points. smith & wesson are up. a record of high demand just comes on the sixth month anniversary of the newtown shootings. smartphones often the target of thieves and now government officials are calling on the manufacturers to install a kill switch that would r...

$300. if it gets exported to latin america or asia or africa, it can bring in as much as $700 to $1,000. >> reporter: is a kill switch even possible? we went to arguably the leading mobile security company in the world, lookout, which makes a popular app for smartphones. >> the notion of just being able to render a phone useless, can that happen? >> it is technically plausible. a phone is just a computer. if you destroy the operator system that the phone relies on, the phone cant be used. >> rep...

World, lookout, which makes a popular app for smartphones. >> the notion of just being able to render a phone useless, can that happen? >> it is technically plausible. a phone is just a computer. if you destroy the operator system that the phone relies on, the phone cant be used. >> reporter: so if it is technically possible, why isnt it happening? >> it is not an easy thing to do. >> reporter: apples eye phone has a feature that will track stolen phones and erase the data, sometimes more than v...

Leading mobile company in the world, look out, which makes a popular app for cell phones. >> the notion of being able to render a phone useless, can that happen? >> its technically plausible. sfafrs the computer, if you destroy the operating system the phone relys on. >> so technically possible. why isnt it happening? >> because its not an easy thing to do. >> reporter: now, apples iphone has a fee cure that will track stolen phones and erase the data, sometimesmore more value annual of the phon...