Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> Personally I like the idea of periodic SMS messages with the
> lat/lon/altitude.  When in stolen mode, having the phone receive SMS
> msgs containing commands for the phone would seem to be very useful.

The first thing that happens to a stolen phone is that the SIM is
chucked. You won't be able to *send* SMS messages, since you will not
know the phone number. Unless you make sure it SENDS you its new
phone number as well.

> Something as simple as having a way of remotely submitting a short
> shell script would do the trick.

Stuffing something useful in 160 chars is hard. It's better to design
things beforehand, so you can just send simple commands with arguments.

I wonder if you can send SMSes on the Neo without the user noticing
anything, or wether things like the backlight will be turned on (by the
closed off chip hardware).

Paul