N900 Security
 

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.

Re: N900 Security
 

May I direct you to SMSCON and various Linux utilities.

Re: N900 Security
 

nice idea ..would love to have such kind of app other than smscon .

Re: N900 Security
 

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.

Re: N900 Security
 

Does SMSCON have a GUI yet?

Re: N900 Security
 

Re: N900 Security
 

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

Re: N900 Security
 

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.

Re: N900 Security
 

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.

Re: N900 Security
 

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?