On 7/1/07, James Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> Your're assuming an awfully clever thief here...I guess it's possible that someone who pickpockets cell phones might know to flash the firmware, but it's probable that most don't--I shouldn't think the majority of common thieves would even be aware of the open nature of the OpenMoko--they'd just think it a shiny, expensive cell, prime for a new SIM. <snip>
well, they won't know of the open nature unless that other thread with the TV ads kicks in and we splash the thing around the interblogosphereweb.... but seriously, it's not the thief that you really need to worry about being clever... it's his fence, and yeah, some of those guys are clever enough to flash a phone, or know someone who is, so don't assume this, what I'd think about is integrating this functionality into u-boot, where it's harder to get to, then altering the u-boot upgrader to require a password: no password, no flashy. We're talking about reading then sending one line commands to UARTs for a GPS fix, then an sms, I don't see anything that couldn't easily be handled by the bootloader each time the phone is turned on, especially since both the GPS and GSM hardware are separate subsystems I would really hate for anyone to be a tester, but I think it would be interesting to gather data from multiple tracking methods(u-Boot, userland, k-space)-- we could implement all of them easily and then see, as phones were (god forbid) stolen(knock on wood just in case) -- Jeff O|||||||O
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