Loosing your moko

[Matt Manjos]

Or it could be programmed to send this GPS-locating message to the
server each time the SIM card is changed, for the ultra-paranoid.

Matt

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ian Darwin <ian at darwinsys.com> wrote:
> Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > I thought about the risk of loosing the moko or of getting it stolen...
> > >
> > > I got the following idea:
> > > If you can't find your moko, you only have to send an SMS with a special
> keyword/passphrase to your moko.
> > >
> > > It recognises the special text and sends the current coordinates to a
> server. So you can see it's position.
> > >
> >
> > Hehe...sounds fun.
> >
>
>  For sure. But there are two approaches; this one assumes the bad guy won't
> change (or just remove) the SIM card, which is possible but not likely. The
> other one (which I thought of ages ago but which Michele Renda just
> explained again quite well) still works if the BG changes the SIM, as long
> as there's a SIM card in place (or if you have a FreeRunner if you're in
> WiFi coverage).
>
>  But of course neither will work if the bad guy is tech-savvy enough to
> reload the flash. And we won't say any more because those guys know how to
> use Google!
>
>
>
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