This man knows who stole my phone, can anyone help

[Diagro]

Can you not trust me the details to log into it?

 

[kwerk]

Time to go war-driving round Sheffield.

And look up every "sohail" in Sheffield on UK-Info to narrow down the field, it's an arabic name.

 

[yak.h'cir]

I have an IP for his wifi!

172.20.10.3

Is that a local one or something that could be of use?

 

[Diagro]

Hmm, Doesnt look local to me mate

 

[yak.h'cir]

Can you not trust me the details to log into it?

haha, no sorry. He's turned it off anyway. If nothing comes of it with the police I'll load everything I have onto 4chan!

 

[yak.h'cir]

Time to go war-driving round Sheffield.

And look up every "sohail" in Sheffield on UK-Info to narrow down the field, it's an arabic name.

Tempting! It's a shame I'm not clever enough to rig my computer to sniff out a wireless network under that name and then I could drive the streets of Sheffield trying to pick him up!

 

[yak.h'cir]

The IP is not giving me any joy on any of the ip lookups, they think it's a local address...

 

[Diagro]

Well if the police wont help then Let us know the details to view it, Would love to see this in action.

Also he may turn GPS on if you are lucky.

if you are unlucky he will restore it

 

[kwerk]

Tempting! It's a shame I'm not clever enough to rig my computer to sniff out a wireless network under that name and then I could drive the streets of Sheffield trying to pick him up!

I havent done it in a while but it's super easy, i used a program called net stumbler I think and a USB GPS dongle. It logs every network it finds with the GPS co-ordinates, SSID, security type and signal strength.

 

[Energize]

Did you not have a pin/swipe pattern on it?!

Security software, but no actual security...you cant be that retarded surely?

Pin code/swipe provides no real security, it's authentication which can easily be bypassed, not encryption. Ironically it's actually less secure because people like you think it does provide security, thus leaving sensitive data on your phone.

Secondly it hinders actually getting the phone back because if someone can't get onto the phone they restore it back to factory settings or flash it and then there's no way of tracking it.

As for the OP Cerberus will automatically enable GPS on rooted android phones.

 

[JRJ]

I believe you need to be rooted for GPS access!

You can play sounds and alarms from Cerberus, freak him out while he's sleeping!!!

 

[Diagro]

Yea set an alarm off. Then watch the video or listen to sound

 

[yak.h'cir]

Still off. I hope my fiddling hasn't somehow tipped him off. Will have to see if he reappears tomorrow!

 

[austinpowers]

I hope you get your phone back, on another note that's a really cool app and cheap (£2.66)

 

[Sin_Chase]

172 is an internal address

 

[austinpowers]

I've been playing with that app and the picture taking doesn't make a sound, when done from the phone it does, so keep snapping away

 

[mistercrabb]

Try downloading this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb

It should remotely self-install when he gets a data signal and it can re-enable gps on some phones.
Worth a try?

 

[arekgreenman888]

cerberus sounds like a great program for protection against theft. IS there such program for symbian phone such as nokia e6? thanks

Good luck recovering phone.

 

[Richie]

This is the other reason I have rooted my phone. Cerberus can be integrated into the ROM so even of they wipe the phone, the app still remains. It is also hidden from view so no one can see it installed.

 

[jamief]

cerberus sounds like a great program for protection against theft. IS there such program for symbian phone such as nokia e6? thanks

Good luck recovering phone.

Don't worry, nobody would steal a Nokia