Thread: have stolen nokia "call home" with its ip address
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dannemil is offline dannemil
2008-07-12 , 15:57
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Originally Posted by Naranek View Post
I think it would be better to have the device remain operational. If it locks up, the thief would probably flash it or throw it away. As long as it is functioning, the thief might use it himself or sell it to someone, so it'll keep popping up in the network and sending location data. I'm fairly confident the authorities would in fact act on this if I had a good trace of the device. After all, you don't know how much other stolen things you'd find from the perpetrator.
You're probably right. At least that way you could track it. I am working on one of the earlier suggestions to incorporate gps latitude/longitude data in the file that is sent home. I think it will work, but one problem is that the gps on the N810 takes a long time to get a fix on the satellites, so you would have to turn on the gps from the command line which can be done, but it would have to be on for a long time before you could get the data, and the thief might notice the icon that indicates that the gps is on.