Re: Theft Recovery: Useful Tool or SpyWare?
Re: Theft Recovery: Useful Tool or SpyWare?
- Subject: Re: Theft Recovery: Useful Tool or SpyWare?
- From: Scott Stevenson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:51:37 -0700
i know that this is not directly related any specifics of cocoa
programming but i have an idea that i would like to bounce off of a
couple of peers.
im thinking of making a nearly invisible background application that
"phones home" to protect against theft. what it would do is send an
email to a specified email address. it would send the ip address of
the computer every time it starts up if it is connected to the
internet.
this idea isnt new, you can find a script at macosxhints.com to do
it. but my version will have a few modifications that i havnt seen
before.
the scripts that ive seen you have to setup "sendmail" on the computer
You have some interesting ideas about the various mechanisms that
could be used, but I think it's a moot point.
I have no doubt that harm to your image as a software developer would
greatly outweigh any potential benefit from "regained" sales. I think
you'd see even more of a backlash from Mac users than those of other
platforms. Mac users *will* pay for good software that they trust.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I wouldn't use (much less pay for)
any software that does what you describe here.
So 30 seconds after I sent this, it became clear to me that you were
talking about theft of the computer, not a piece of software you wrote.
Apologizes.
- Scott
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