Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

[kkr]

Le mercredi 28 février 2007 à 18:00 +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl a écrit :
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> Improving on the idea: get someone to operate one of those 0900 numbers in 
> each country (usualy they dont really work cross country very well) who will 
> then give the proceeds to the owner of the stolen phone so he can buy a new 
> one... Or even just sending over priced SMS, that's even less obvious.
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That's exactly what I'm thinking too :-)



Globally, the idea to protect the phone against the theft has already
been expressed many time before:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2007-February/002910.html

And even much more before (12 Dec 2006):
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000748.html

It could be good to summarize on the wiki all these ideas expressed
before on this mailing list (google: site:openmoko.org phone thief).


It seem to me that two ideas are news:
- the overtaxed calling number (for the profit of the victim)
- bluetooth localisation (with the headset or another phone)


Regards,