Le mercredi 28 février 2007 à 20:54 +0100, Attila Csipa a écrit : > A lot of ideas have been written on anti theft protection, but much of it > from > a geek/user's standpoint, and almost completely forgetting the possible > ramifications of the suggested techniques. First of all, none of the > techniques presented PROTECT your phone from being stolen (they fall more to > the find-your-lost-phone category). Second, in most countries I know of you > cannot act on your own without the help/presence of law enforcement persons. > Although this may sound strange and ineffective at first, it makes a lot of > sense from a police perspective. What would you do if you confronted a > criminal who stole your phone ? What if he is dangerous ? What if you get > hurt in the process ? What if the person who has the phone and whom you are > shouting at/calling a thief is actually innocent and knows nothing of the > origin of the phone ? Which brings us to the next concern - stolen phones > usually do not get regularly used by the persons who actually stole them, and > most certainly not used by their money - their SIMs are just as stolen. They > might drain your account with expensive calls, but chances are high that the > phone will soon get sold through ads and/or ebay.
In this case, when you buy on ebay, you do have to receive the prove that the phone is not stolen, in other case (even if I'm not a lower), the buyer is too in fault... > If the persons in charge do > this 'professionally' they will surely flash the phone (the Neo1973 is here > at a little advantage by not being a widespread/common phone). Thus there is > no guarantee that you are spending the thiefs money - in fact, it is much > more probable that you are tracking and wasting an unsuspecting victims > money. If the phone is flash by the thief, then the software will not work ;-) > How would you feel if you bought a slightly used Neo1973 only to find > out that it is sending expensive foreign/roaming SMS-es because the previous > owner 'forgot' to turn off a silent alarm/anti theft application ? Is the same for car alarm... When you sold something, you do have to do the necessary action (in other case, you're too responsive for the damage) > As you can > see the problem of phone theft is not that simple as relaying coordinates > back to yourself - a much broader topic must be analysed to tackle this > issue - and although the GPS might help a little, it is not really a silver > bullet in this matter. But globally, I agree with you, we do have to think carefully about this case... So, let's start a working group on this idea :-) Regards, _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
