Loosing your moko

[Joseph Reeves]

True, but frankly there's a lot of bad stuff that could happen if
someone malicious got that level of access to our servers...


On 03/04/2008, andy <andy at zrmt.com> wrote:
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>  Joseph Reeves wrote:
>  > I think it would be quite likely that a phone thief/finder would
>  > change the SIM, either because they want to use it themselves, or
>  > because they want to sell it. I'd do the following:
>  >
>  > Set up a script so that the phone regularly connects to a server you
>  > control, downloads the contents of a folder executes them. Say once
>  > every six hours, just for argument's sake. The contents of this folder
>  > would usually be empty, but as soon as you realised that your phone
>  > was missing you upload the GPS/SMS/mass deletion script that you've
>  > been saving for months. That way, it doesn't matter about whatever the
>  > bad folk has done to your phone (as long as the flash hasn't been
>  > wiped); it will connect up (you'll discover it's IP address - likely
>  > to be useful) and will execute the commands you want.
>  >
>  > This is something I'm probably going to look into implementing within
>  > a corporate environment within the near future.
>  >
>  > Joseph
>  >
>
> Only problem with that is that if someone hacked into that folder, he
>  could wipe all your neo's in one move :)
>
>
>  2c worth
>
>  Andy
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