Someone stole my Neo Freerunner... :(

Angus Ainslie angus.ainslie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 16:29:58 CET 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
> There is a program around that is supposed to look for a special keyword
> in a sms, and send a gps reading back. It didn't work when I tried it,
> but this appraoch can be developed into something more robust. Another
> other security idea: Send an SMS to put the phone in "stolen" modus. (Do
> that quickly, before they change the sim card.)
>

Are you talking about sms-sentry ?

Which part didn't work ?

What distro did you try it on ?

Did you run it from the command line and check what status messages it
was sending ?

It works but can take a very very long time to get a fix and return
the SMS you are waiting for.

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Angus Ainslie
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