Loosing your moko

Michele Renda michele.renda at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 07:37:28 CEST 2008


Thank you

It seem to be what I was searching for: to follow a standard is always a 
good idea :)


matt.mets at cibomahto.com wrote:
> I would also recommend that some form of authentication and (optionally) encryption be used on the data, in case you don't want the whole world to know your location.  That way, you could have your phone report home its position by default, and if it gets stolen you just need to look to see where it is.  Also, you could choose to share your data with anyone by sharing your public key.
>
> My apologies if someone mentioned it already, but something like openDMTP (http://www.opendmtp.org/) might be a good starting point.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>   
>> Lets not forget, you should be able to download the server software too, and
>> run it on your own server :)
>>
>> /me points to the GPS location sharing project and thinks it could suite the
>> task with authentication.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Federico
>>
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>> Subject:	Re: Loosing your moko
>> Author:	"Diego Fdez." Durán <diego at goedi.net>
>> Date:		03rd April 2008 9:00 pm
>>
>> On jue, 2008-04-03 at 18:30 +0200, Michele Renda wrote:
>>     
>>> Some days ago I was thinking something about this.
>>>
>>> My idea was this:
>>>
>>> 1. An application to install (who want) on openmoko. It is running as a
>>> deamon. Configure very simple like username, password, server.
>>> 2. If it is running, check if there is connection. If yes, it send his
>>> mac and gps coordinates to a server, that can be hosted to openmoko.org
>>>       
>> Using this approximation the centralised server could be used to many
>> more things:
>> Ex. Measure the distance between two FreeRunners, so you can find a
>> friend in a party :) (In the centralised server at openmoko.org you can
>> set who can see you location).
>>
>>     
>>> 3. every person can access to a web application, on openmoko.org where a
>>> person can set the stealt allarm.
>>>      It there is the stealt allarm, openmoko.org will keep all the gps
>>> position received every time that the freerunner is online.
>>>      else if clean all the position after 7 day (I think is a reasonable
>>> time a person will know if a phone was stealt)
>>> 4. If a person didn't gave a stealt allarm, the person can not to access
>>> to position logs (to avoid privacy violation)
>>>
>>> It can run because who steal a phone, usually he can sell. And an
>>> openmoko phone is very suitable to go online, so if someone go online,
>>> he will send as soon info about his position.
>>>
>>> Is possible to think that it will send the inserted sim number or s/n.
>>>
>>> This is my idea
>>>
>>>
>>> Sebastian Billaudelle wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi there!
>>>>
>>>> I thought about the risk of loosing the moko or of getting it stolen...
>>>>
>>>> I got the following idea:
>>>> If you can't find you 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.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> Sebastian
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