Thread: N900 Anti-theft Project
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2010-07-25 , 00:39
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Originally Posted by festivalnut View Post
well anything that stops them turning it off would just result in the battery being removed, there goes your chances of recovery! better to allow them to turn it off, but a script in the shutdown process sets the alarm for ten minutes and auto-reboots the phone, perhaps even reboot it an a way that it still appears off, yet continues to transmit gps etc.
They'd have to put the battery back in eventually to use the device. And if you put a script into the boot process then the script will automatically come back once the system is back on. For example, this

http://blog.tersmitten.nl/archives/873

Updates DyDNS whenever a new internet connection is made.

Anyway, although most thieves could eventually figure out how to reflash this device, it isn't a very simple process. The N900 is a pretty unfriendly device for anybody expecting an iPhone or Android's user friendliness.

What I wonder is if a person puts a SIM in that doesn't have a data plan, will an internet connection still work even if they don't pay for it or have it on a plan.
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