Comments on: LoJack for your iPhone – stolen iPhones phone home http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/26/lojack-for-your-iphone-stolen-iphones-phone-home.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:25:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/26/lojack-for-your-iphone-stolen-iphones-phone-home.html/comment-page-1/#comment-341376 Steve Tue, 26 May 2009 12:43:47 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/26/lojack-for-your-iphone-stolen-iphones-phone-home.html#comment-341376 Jonny, It's not tied to the actual SIM. As long as there is a network connection the location can be reported. Of course, to use mobile triangulation you need to have some sort of subscription, but sooner or later someone will pop in a sim card to make calls. A more ingenious approach would be to capture the web browser url's from the phone cache and send to twitter, this could expose facebook habits, email accounts, etc. and would be very useful in tracking down the perp. This would only require an active wifi connection (no sim). Jonny,

It’s not tied to the actual SIM. As long as there is a network connection the location can be reported. Of course, to use mobile triangulation you need to have some sort of subscription, but sooner or later someone will pop in a sim card to make calls.

A more ingenious approach would be to capture the web browser url’s from the phone cache and send to twitter, this could expose facebook habits, email accounts, etc. and would be very useful in tracking down the perp. This would only require an active wifi connection (no sim).

]]> By: JonnyBruha http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/26/lojack-for-your-iphone-stolen-iphones-phone-home.html/comment-page-1/#comment-165466 JonnyBruha Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:41:55 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/26/lojack-for-your-iphone-stolen-iphones-phone-home.html#comment-165466 And what do you do when the thief pulls out the SIM card? This workaround would probably be effective for most people interested in stealing an iPhone (since they would be stupid enough to use it as is), but for the percentage that would jailbreak and unlock it for themselves, this is just another parlor trick disguised as a useful function. And what do you do when the thief pulls out the SIM card? This workaround would probably be effective for most people interested in stealing an iPhone (since they would be stupid enough to use it as is), but for the percentage that would jailbreak and unlock it for themselves, this is just another parlor trick disguised as a useful function.

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