Wishlist/Anti-Theft Mode
From Openmoko
Suppose you are in a busy environment and your device is lying around somewhere. You sometimes use it but cannot look after it all the time. A sort of high risk environment for phone theft where you could put it in anti theft mode which is enabled when
- someone moves it
- touches the touch screen
- removes the USB/charging-plug
- removal of Bluetooth/WiFi devices in vicinity
This mode can be switched off by
- entering a password/pin (unprompted?)
- doing a certain gesture (measured by accelerometers)
- voice verficiation ;-)
- remote-reactivating (USB, WiFi, Bluetooth)
- mixture of the above
From the moment it has been moved or touched
- it will display a warning on a red background flashing in black: You are committing a crime. Put this phone back, now! (or similar)
- do nothing. It may simulate a fake network error or similar when a number is dialed.
If it is not unlocked may
- set off a loud alarm
- start sending messages to a predefined email address with pictures (???), GPS coordinates and network pings (???)
- activate microphone recording and send compressed audio files to a pre-defined number/e-mail-adress
- activate self-destruct mechanism ;-)
If the above anti-theft measures fail
- a special text message could be sent to the phone which erases all contacts then activates the pin lock for the phone and SIM card.
- activation of some sort remote control