It depends on where you lose your phone. Lose it in a supermarket or on a train to the beach, not too likely. Lose it at in the local computer chain store or the meeting of your local Linux user group, much more likely. In any case it's not a risk *I* would willing to run as losing the phone would be less painful to me than having to clean up after an intrusion to my systems at home.

I took a quick look at the Gnu anti-theft tool mentioned earlier in the thread, and it looks like it has complete approach to the backend storage of the data regarding location.I think adding GPS, camera, etc, to its data gathering is the endpoint we should aim at.

In the meantime, if your risks are different than mine, deploy the current script. But do so with the knowledge of the risk to the system waiting to gather data viassh upload.