Loosing your moko

[Federico Lorenzi]

One of the really cool ideas is the bluetooth one as mentioned before.
You can pick up a cheap bluetooth headset for next to nothing, and all
you do is carry it around with you. When / if the neo detects it is
out of range / past a specific RSSI, then it will start making noise.
Not necessarily screaming 'I AM BEING STOLEN' but maybe play a song at
full volume and start vibrating like crazy. You could also have it so
if it goes past a specific RSSI it sends a message to the headset, to
be discrete :)

Cheers,
Federico

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Michele Renda <michele.renda at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't want to say this is the solution for all the problems:
>
>
> > As cool as all the solutions sound, we have to think of some
> > problems/implications:
> > 1) What happens if the sim gets changed?
> >
> >
>  It continue to run, because the program is not sim related. Whe it see a
> tcp/ip connection it send a data packet to openmoko serve.
>  The sim credential is used only to identify who use the phone.
>
>
> > 2) What happens if the phone gets flashed?
> >
> >
>  To this, I think we can do nothing. I hope it is sold without to be
> flashed. Freerunner is not a so common phone for now.
>
>
> > 3) What's with my data (stored e-mail passwords, wifi-passwods, web
> > history, session cookies, e-mails, and so on)?
> >
> >
>  Is possible to implement a system to get all these data to the server (one
> time it is allarmed) and to delete the phone copy.
>
>
> > 4) What if I only loose the phone?
> >
> >
>  You can access to openmoko server without make a stealt alarm, but only a
> lose allarm
>
>
> > 5) What if I lend the phone to a friend? Do I have to follow a
> > two-hour setup procedure to avoid my phone calling the police?
> >
> >
> >
>  Is forbidden to call policy with an automatic system
>
>
>
> > There are many solutions, but each one has it's flaws. The idea that
> > the phone reports back in some way is pretty cool: at each sim change,
> > send an sms to a preconfigured number, saying "Hi, i'm name, this is
> > my new number". A good utility for keeping your buddies up to date,
> > and for having always the newest number. another good idea is to have
> > configure the phone to play some sort of alarm and encrypt the files
> > (but still allowing access to the phone, so that the thief keeps on
> > using it) when it's more then.. 2 meters away from a configured
> > bluetooth device (your headset/bluetooth keyboard/whatever). An
> > intresting idea is to trace the gps position each minute, store them,
> > and send a log per e-mail as soon as a connection is possible (open
> > wifi, gprs, logged in into wifi, ..). Also a program that sends to all
> > bluetooth devices it reaches wich accept it something like "Help Me!
> > I'm a stolen phone. I belong to $name, $adress. My actual phone number
> > is $number, please contact the police". One out of many people maybe
> > will contact the police. Also the client/server setup is an intresting
> > idea, allowing one to install its own server, and sending coordinates
> > and phone number in periodical intervals. Maybe one could even make a
> > buisness providing this client/server setup.
> > And if the card is taken out, and the phone flashed? Well.. if the
> > phone is already shut down, you've lost your phone. The only
> > possibility would be to have some sort of trackback of the serial
> > numbers of all flashed devices.. but the security and privacy
> > implications of this would be too great..
> >
> > Just my two cents
> >
> >
> >
>  Yes, I think your ideas are good!
>
>
>
>
>
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