An Idea for anti-theft software

[Sideburnt]

I was playing around with W.I.M.P. (Where is my phone) yesterday and I noticed an area that I think would make this program, or any other for that matter much more powerful.

Theory behind WIMP is that it sends back a text with GPS co-ordinates to another phone, not so great if theres 3 pubs within very close proximity, like in town. Soooo. my next thought was what if the phone was used at a camera post-being stolen.

I imagine the way this would work is that a photo would be taken from the thefts perpective using the standard back camera. However another additional photo is taken from the front camera with GPS data packaged into the JPG properties ala GPS Photo.

You'd get a shot of said thief, some decor in the background which Im sure would help work out where they are, you'd also have evidence of the theft and who took the phone, with time and date stamps, which when tallied against a police report would prove the photo was taken after the fact.

Im surprised this feature isnt available anywhere yet, or perhaps im talking tosh, or even that my google skills are lacking.

Anyhoo what do you funky brothers think?

[RussianTechno101]

I think that is a great idea now all we need is somone smart enuff to make make this porgram work like that lol

[ChumleyEX]

I think you would get a lot of pics of peoples pockets. Then you would know what pants they have on.

[Valtamr]

I think that is a great idea now all we need is somone smart enuff to make make this porgram work like that lol

If you were able to find someone smart enough to make the front camera work on your Tilt....then writing the software should be cake.

[welshdragon]

They have this type of software on Apple lappies.

Have a look at the engadget link

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/

[fone_fanatic]

That would be a neat feature but you would also probably get a bunch of bad images (tables, pockets, hands).

If you were able to find someone smart enough to make the front camera work on your Tilt....then writing the software should be cake.

If you noticed the first poster is from London so he probably has a Tytn II with the front camera...

[Valtamr]

That would be a neat feature but you would also probably get a bunch of bad images (tables, pockets, hands).



If you noticed the first poster is from London so he probably has a Tytn II with the front camera...

Yes, and if you noticed the person I actually quoted has "Using: AT&T Tilt" in his/her signature.

[GordonFulcrum]

Wow! Now that would really be something. I would definitely be installing such an app on my next device especially in face of my Kaiser being stolen 2 weeks ago.

I think the problem with picuters of people's pockets and pub tables could be easily solved by setting the application to transmit only the pictures actually taken by the person in possesion of the phone after the theft. This way you could make sure the pictures sent, were taken when the person in question was holding the phone in front of them actaully trying to take a picture of sth.

This creates other problems of course like: what if the thief never uses the camera? But I think all mobile phone users try the camera out (no matter how poor it could be) at least once. So receiving a good quality picture would only be a matter of time.