Lets not forget, you should be able to download the server software too, and run it on your own server :)
/me points to the GPS location sharing project and thinks it could suite the task with authentication. Cheers, Federico ________________ Reply Header ________________ Subject: Re: Loosing your moko Author: "Diego Fdez." Durán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03rd April 2008 9:00 pm On jue, 2008-04-03 at 18:30 +0200, Michele Renda wrote: > Some days ago I was thinking something about this. > > My idea was this: > > 1. An application to install (who want) on openmoko. It is running as a > deamon. Configure very simple like username, password, server. > 2. If it is running, check if there is connection. If yes, it send his > mac and gps coordinates to a server, that can be hosted to openmoko.org Using this approximation the centralised server could be used to many more things: Ex. Measure the distance between two FreeRunners, so you can find a friend in a party :) (In the centralised server at openmoko.org you can set who can see you location). > 3. every person can access to a web application, on openmoko.org where a > person can set the stealt allarm. > It there is the stealt allarm, openmoko.org will keep all the gps > position received every time that the freerunner is online. > else if clean all the position after 7 day (I think is a reasonable > time a person will know if a phone was stealt) > 4. If a person didn't gave a stealt allarm, the person can not to access > to position logs (to avoid privacy violation) > > It can run because who steal a phone, usually he can sell. And an > openmoko phone is very suitable to go online, so if someone go online, > he will send as soon info about his position. > > Is possible to think that it will send the inserted sim number or s/n. > > This is my idea > > > Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > I thought about the risk of loosing the moko or of getting it stolen... > > > > I got the following idea: > > If you can't find you moko, you only have to send an SMS with a > > special keyword/passphrase to your moko. > > It recognises the special text and sends the current coordinates to a > > server. So you can see it's position. > > > > cheers > > Sebastian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Diego Fdez. Durán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.goedi.net GPG : 925C 9A21 7A11 3B13 6E43 50DB F579 D119 90D2 66BB _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community