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Texrat
02-23-2007, 04:37 PM
My N800 was stolen yesterday. By, incredibly enough, a fellow employee or a cleaning crew member. I'm not happy. :mad:
brendan
02-23-2007, 04:48 PM
if its any consolation, a co-workers wife left her purse in an unlocked locker at the gym, and he was wifed (wiped) out (pun intended). all but one of the credit cards and all savings & checking accounts cleaned out.

people suck
rattis
02-23-2007, 04:51 PM
My N800 was stolen yesterday. By, incredibly enough, a fellow employee or a cleaning crew member. I'm not happy. :mad:

Hopefully it's a co-worker pulling a prank on you.

Do you have any info we should watch for, if they try to sell it on ebay?
lbattraw
02-23-2007, 04:58 PM
Each n800 (and 770) has several unique IDs (MAC address, etc.), so if you kept your box you can at least verify your ownership if someone else suddenly shows up with a n800. It's too bad nobody has written a "phone-home" applet that automatically sends email to you containing the IP it's connecting from if it's not in a specified list or something along those lines.

Larry
TitaniumRat
02-23-2007, 05:11 PM
ouch, that sucks. I had one stolen by UPS, but luckily it was insured.
bac522
02-23-2007, 05:13 PM
Yup, I had my 770 swiped while at an airport. Not sure when it happen but it was a heart breaker. I kept checking on ebay checking any items that were sold from the city I lost it in, but nothing popped up. My guess is a local pawn shop got it!
rattis
02-23-2007, 06:05 PM
It's too bad nobody has written a "phone-home" applet that automatically sends email to you containing the IP it's connecting from if it's not in a specified list or something along those lines.

Larry

you mean like the laptop that was recovered with seti@home? :)
tolou
02-23-2007, 06:16 PM
I miss a feature to prompt for the PIN code on evey boot, and NOT for the screen lock.
spycedtx
02-23-2007, 06:37 PM
I miss a feature to prompt for the PIN code on evey boot, and NOT for the screen lock.

I was under the impression, from other thread postings, that the security code, which DOES get activated on startup, outlived subsequent flashes.
Texrat
02-26-2007, 11:46 AM
Hopefully it's a co-worker pulling a prank on you.

Do you have any info we should watch for, if they try to sell it on ebay?

Prank was my first suspicion, but that fizzed out.

But there is a happy ending. I had left the N800 in my coat pocket Thursday, and when I found the pocket empty on Friday morning I assumed it had been removed at work the day before. Turns out my 6 year old nephew got it out and lost it in the coach cushions Friday before I left for work. The little turd.

:)
TA-t3
02-26-2007, 01:58 PM
Well I now wrote down the wlan and bt numbers and saved that.. if it disappears I'm going warhunting! ;)
mwiktowy
02-26-2007, 02:12 PM
There was just some talk of such things last week here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/18357

It would be very easy to make the 770/N800 silently phone home whenever it got an Internet connection. Getting a court order to get the address from an ISP would be another matter altogether but possible as was demonstrated in the Seti@home stolen laptop case. You may not catch the thief as they will likely fence it too fast but you might get your gadget back.
Texrat
02-26-2007, 05:06 PM
As it stands, I just want to skin a devious little redhead...
freeman
02-27-2007, 02:04 PM
Talking about stolen stuff, when can we have truecrypt ported, so atleast you data is safe?
Milhouse
02-27-2007, 07:31 PM
Talking about stolen stuff, when can we have truecrypt ported, so atleast you data is safe?

Just as soon as you're done porting it? ;)
bergie
03-05-2007, 04:47 PM
It would be very easy to make the 770/N800 silently phone home whenever it got an Internet connection. Getting a court order to get the address from an ISP would be another matter altogether but possible as was demonstrated in the Seti@home stolen laptop case. You may not catch the thief as they will likely fence it too fast but you might get your gadget back.

Our MaemoPlazer (maemoplazer_watcher) already sits in background and connects to Plazes every time the N800 has a WiFi connection.

While you don't get the IP of the device this way, you might get an actual physical location which can also lead you to the thief. Then just grab your towel (doesn't every galactic hitchhiker carry one?) and strangle the guy... :D

Of course, this scenario would work better if we made MaemoPlazer start silently in the background...