On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Benedikt Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ilja O. schrieb: > > About data wipe: > > > > I was thinking -- doesn't eny SIM card have some kind of ID number? > > And if they do, do we have software way to obtain it? > > > > Phone could wipe itself if another SIM card is inserted AND upon SMS > > message receiving. > > > > > > If you have several SIM cards, than we could create simple SIM card > > whilelist. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > ... by the way : to what phonenumber will you send a sms when the thief > has replaced the sim card? > > > you could also test, if there is the selected SIM card in the phone. > and if not, you send the GPS-Data of the phone every 10 minutes per sms > to a pre given phonenumber. > so you could find your phone. (and you have the phonenumber of the thief > :) ) > If i think about it, we should just send every 30min. because it would > be annoying to recive a sms every 10 min. > This have already been discussed. > > but all these things are just functional if you are the only one who > have implimented that feature. > That's the bad side of the open source thing. If you put it in the > general source tree, everyone > knows where he had to put his SIM card numbers, so the phone think > everthing is allright. > If phone will wipe itself if no authorized SIM is present (and program starts as daemon, of course), than it won't be real security hole.
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