Project Proposal: Dead man's switch

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Ha -- actually quite a neat idea imho.

I would extend the list of possible alarms/triggers though from a simple 
touchscreen touch to:

1. another SIM is inserted
2. ran without SIM
3. some monitored application gets killed
etc

and actions (although some of them could be probably coded as generic 
'shell commands'):
* wait until online and send email with current location (if GPS is on), 
registered phoned number, cell location, etc
* or just send an SMS with above msgs if 'in service' ;-)

just in case the phone is lost and then 'tried' with some other SIM ;-)

and I guess such actions could be groupped into logical entities like
"Lost/Stolen phone",
"Death-threatening situation"
"Trick-or-Treat"
"Save-me-from-undesired-conversation"
with selection of monitored triggers and actions to perform.

but then slowly it might boil to some more generic 'framework' like it 
was discussed on the mailing list few times I believe (automagic switch 
of profiles etc)

Just my few cents ;-)

Diego Fernández Durán wrote:

> 
>  Comments on this "thing" will be appreciated. (and sorry for my bad
> english).
> 
>  -- Diego.