Anti theft protection of our cherished device.

Frank Coenen franknstein666 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 22:55:27 CEST 2007


True. But ones the thief removed your simcard I assume he will flash the
firmware... And then the theft-protection will be gone as well :-(

On 6/30/07, Buddy <buddy.baars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty sure that if someone steals a phone, he wants to use it and
> put a simcard in the phone.
> The phone can call my own ISP and connect on a standard dial-up line. The
> problem with sms is, you can sent it to your own number but can't acces the
> sms till you get your replacement simcard, and you can't get a new simcard
> with prepayed.
>
>
>
> On 6/30/07, Frank Coenen <franknstein666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The problem is of course that you can't sent sms/emails if there is no
> > sim.
> > And even IF there is a sim, you cant always sent emails since you need
> > to have a data plan.
> > SMS of course is an option.
> >
> > On 6/30/07, Buddy <buddy.baars at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have been thinking for a system like this sinds my last phone was
> > > stolen :(
> > >
> > > What I would like is:
> > > simcard is changed -> phone sents email/sms to a server.
> > > Gives me the new phone number, a code to call the phone silent.
> > > Possibility to call phone and open a remote terminal.
> > > With acces to GPS data, and all personal data, my own and from the new
> > > owner.
> > >
> > > Fuck with him for a while (sent delayed (with cron) a few sms messages
> > > to his friends) change his agenda, etc etc
> > >
> > > Look him up at the most embarrassing place (work, school) and get my
> > > phone back.
> > >
> > >
> > > Buddy
> > >
> > > On 6/30/07, wim delvaux < wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi sean and other OpenMoko-ers
> > > >
> > > > Just read an article on Slashdot (?) about the fact that lots of
> > > > of our precious gadgets get stolen (or lost).
> > > >
> > > > Not being a hardware guy, I was wondering if one could
> > > > build/integrate/stick
> > > > to them some kind of 'anti-proximity' detector.
> > > >
> > > > This is a device that consists of a a central - costly ? -
> > > > pockettable
> > > > detector (that probes for a set of devices within a  know list every
> > > > now and
> > > > then) and which you put in your pocket, or wallet or on your
> > > > keychain.
> > > >
> > > > Around that device a 'cloud' of periferals exists (Neo, wallet,
> > > > Phone,
> > > > Laptop, ...) each tagged with a cheap ID which gets probed by the
> > > > central.
> > > >
> > > > If any of the periferals fall out of range, the central beeps
> > > > warning me - the
> > > > owner of these nice periferals - that I am loosing one.
> > > >
> > > > I do not know if this idea is at all feasible (battery consumption,
> > > > size, ...)
> > > > or perhaps it even exists, but I wanted to float this idea.
> > > >
> > > > Suggestions comments welcome
> > > >
> > > > W
> > > >
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