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I think this would be a very useful addition to our apps to protect against loss/stolen phone. Someone care to develop it?

Man who exposed laptop thief online gets his MacBook back

http://techcentral.my/news/story.asp...07&sec=it_news

The software - part LoJack, part nanny cam - is equipped with location positioning software. A representative for the product's London-based developer, Flipcode Ltd, did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Many portable electronics, including some digital cameras, are now equipped with wireless Internet capability and automatic geographic tagging on any photo taken - a helpful tool when trying to see where a thief has been hanging out. It's a step beyond the LoJack system invented two decades earlier that emitted a signal from a stolen vehicle.
 
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May I direct you to SMSCON and various Linux utilities.
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nice idea ..would love to have such kind of app other than smscon .
 
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Originally Posted by prankster View Post
nice idea ..would love to have such kind of app other than smscon .
What else could you want? SMSCON already has numerous features that you can extend by using scripts and utilities from the repos. Personally, if I wanted to remote-wipe the device, I'd have it zero out the MTD devices, then proceed to scramble the eMMC.
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What else could you want? SMSCON already has numerous features that you can extend by using scripts and utilities from the repos. Personally, if I wanted to remote-wipe the device, I'd have it zero out the MTD devices, then proceed to scramble the eMMC.
Does SMSCON have a GUI yet?
 
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Does SMSCON have a GUI yet?
smscon-editor
 
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For a tech site, the article is quite bad - doesn't have any info on the technology or the tools used.

Have posted some time ago a better article of the same story here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=746
 
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Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
May I direct you to SMSCON and various Linux utilities.
I'm not sure about SMSCON, but in the article, the device could actually act as a trojan horse and took pictures of the thief and publish the location (GPS). Does SMSCON do something like that?

I'm not too good with development stuffs, please let me know how I could get SMSCON. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
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Originally Posted by Joseph.skb View Post
I'm not sure about SMSCON, but in the article, the device could actually act as a trojan horse and took pictures of the thief and publish the location (GPS). Does SMSCON do something like that?

I'm not too good with development stuffs, please let me know how I could get SMSCON. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, SMSCON can make the phone take pictures, last I looked.

As for how to get it, just install it from the app manager. There's SMSCON and there's SMSCON Editor or something like that. You want both (unless you want to configure it through the command-line), but if you just install SMSCON Editor it will install SMSCON along with it.
 

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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Yes, SMSCON can make the phone take pictures, last I looked.

As for how to get it, just install it from the app manager. There's SMSCON and there's SMSCON Editor or something like that. You want both (unless you want to configure it through the command-line), but if you just install SMSCON Editor it will install SMSCON along with it.
I installed SMSCON Editor.Managed to test the sms (to another phone) and it worked. What's the setup for gmail?

By the way, how does this work? I mean, do I get to activate the N900 via another phone or something like that? What's the function of SMSCON?
 
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