Sad Story

[Karthik Kumar]

But when ever the device is powered on (Let's say a guy the burglar
sells to), the openmoko would get activated, right?

Some laptops have a theft tracking feature enabled in their BIOS. It
would be awesome to keep something like that in the Openmoko firmware.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Carl Lobo <carllobo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think one of the first things a burglar would do would be to remove
> the battery and sim card.
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Karthik Kumar <karthikkumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There ought to be a security service on the Freerunner. By integrating
>> the GPS service with internet, we could track where the burglar is.
>>
>> -Karthik
>>
>> On 12/1/08, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> and before that, some real security on the FR.
>>>
>>>  BillK
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 21:36 +0100, Yorick Moko wrote:
>>>  > my condolences;
>>>  >
>>>  > we need a way to remotely activate the gps and make it send an sms and
>>>  > e-mail etc etc
>>>  >
>>>  > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Ian Darwin <ian at darwinsys.com> wrote:
>>>  > > Juan Cañete wrote:
>>>  > >> Hi,
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> Last night a burglar stole my FR. ...
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> My phone had debian on it. I had a lot of applications configured. I used it like my main phone. Mail accounts configured, Phonebook with all contacts, a lot of sms, many applications configured with my users/passwds. And I realized they had access to all. I called the mobile phone company to suspend the number, I've changed almost all important passwds, anyway, although I think they even don't know how to use the FR, maybe they will sell it to someone that do, and he'll surf into my life.
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> I only wanted to share this story with you. Maybe, because sharing my sadness I'll feel better, maybe not...
>>>  > >>
>>>  > > Sr Cañete, thank you, you do both yourself and all of us a service. We
>>>  > > all (I hope) empathize with your loss.
>>>  > > And, most importantly, your story reminds everyone on the list of the
>>>  > > importance of doing backups of their handheld data with at least the
>>>  > > same regularity as their desktop and server systems. Regularly.
>>>  > > Paraphrasing Santayana: Those who do not learn from the suffering of
>>>  > > others are destined to suffer in the future.
>>>  > >
>>>  > >
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>>>  Home in Perth!
>>>
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