My mate has been jabbing out about this 'amazing' idea he's had, so I
thought I'd put it to the NC crew to see what people though.
Basically, the idea is that the TCP/IP stack would have the facility
to be contacted remotely and activate a certain feature of it.
The purpose of this is if your computer is nicked, and the thieves (or
whoever finally receives the gear) knows how to use it and goes
on-line Genesis would send a signal to some server (or maybe send a
basic e-mail to another address such as a Hotmail account etc.) which
would allow you to find the phone number that was used to call out
from. This phone-number could then be used to get the location of the
equipment and finally (if lucky) the recovery of your stolen gear.
This idea of my mates was to make a seperate program that Genesis
started when going on-line but I thought it would be better and more
secure if it was done internally. Today I was reading thought an old
copy PCFormat that Future Publishing sent me in an attempt to coax me
into getting a PC (why?) and I noticed a similar program called
'S.T.O.P.S.' which becomes hidden on the PC and dials out to a special
server every 7 days sending its unique serial number which can then be
traced by this company offering the service.
Of course it is unlikely to see a company devoting itself to the Amiga
which is why I suggest sending a standard e-mail to a free on-line
e-mail account that you can access from anywhere.
But would the above idea work? What has to be though about? Over to
you...
Dinky do,
Mike.
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