The Digital Pioneer пишет: > This is an excellent idea. I've been wondering about this. If I had > GPRS, I would SSH in (possible? Getting the IP would be tricky) and pull > GPS coordinates. But I don't have GPRS. I think it would be good to > implement some kind of SIM-based security, along with a way to send some > kind of panic SMS. Both would activate some kind of daemon that pulls > coords from GPS whenever possible and sends them back to you. Maybe have > it call you at home and a TTS engine gives them to you if you can't get > SMS without your phone. Just some ideas. Would be AWESOME to have a > phone that works to return to its owner though. Lord of the Rings like. :P > > As you maybe can tell, I've considered this a little just in case > someone steals my $400 baby.
I've already thought about something like that when I bought the device, primarily because street robberies are still very common in Russia, especially in Russia itself, i.e. outside Moscow. However, there is one serious problem with this: the device can be easily reflashed. And robbers usually do not use stolen phones themselves, but sell them to second-hand phone resellers, who usually have staff with educated engineers. And even if we had some protection for flashing, like password in u-boot, there is not much we can do about people who have access to JTAG and other sophisticated debugging hardware, and used to cracking (reflashing, unlocking, messing with IMEI, ...) proprietary phones with no documentation at all, like open wiki with step-by-step instructions. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community