Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Is this program still alive?

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Had anyone tested this yet, I would like to read some feedback, see screencaps or even better a video of how it works.

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Nice, but I wonder why isn't it in repos already, at least in extras-devel. It probably makes no difference, but I'm wary of downloading and installing an app that has access to my personal data, gps coordinates, camera and internet all the time from anything else than repositories.

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Oops, thanks!

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Sorry I haven't been active. Haven't checked the forums for atleast a month.

The beauty of open source, is that you're completely able to check the source code for any malware. I don't understand why you'd rather download a .deb from the repository, as it could just as likely have malware as this could (unless somebody is checking the source code of every piece of application in the repositories)

I'll look into creating a .deb.

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

So if someone steals my n900, I can contact Prey who would let me know where my phone is located? How far is this from being finished?

EDIT: Just downloaded it and extracted the zip folder to my documents folder. Now what do I do? I see numerous folders but am clueless as to what to do :(

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Did you even follow the wiki?

Prey provides a control panel on their website, which gives you control of your stolen device, if internet is available of course.

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

No, I didn't read the wiki, my bad. Will do that now. Thanks!

Re: [Announce] Prey (anti-theft) for N900
 

Thanks for the app, but i have some trouble to make it work.

I was able to install all dependencies without much trouble and followed the wiki for fcron.

I configured the prey config with id both of device and account
I configured the fcrontab: */10 * * * * /usr/share/prey/prey.sh > /var/log/prey.log

now, i created an account on Prey website and set my device as missing to check if everything went fine.

Here is my problem, it seems that fcron does not start the prey script as it should. i do not receive any report.
If i manually start the prey.sh (using bash because i am getting error using sh), everything is fine and i receive the report.

I checked in top and have the fcron -b running

Did i miss something about fcron or do you have any idea why the report is not automatically generated?

Thanks in advance