For those who want to automatically update their whereabouts using the iPhone's GPS, there is now a utility that can run on an external server to log your movements. Tyler Hall, a Yahoo programmer by day, has developed some code called Sosumi that pulls the Locate My iPhone information on a regular basis (5 minutes in this case) and can update a service like Yahoo's Fire Eagle. The code also allows you to send warnings and messages to the iPhone using the MobileMe commands.
While this is definitely cool and would be even cooler with an Apple sanctioned API, there are the obvious security issues. In fact, this application's existence means that one must only have your MobileMe username and password and some intermediate coding skills to track your iPhone's (and your) position. Though frankly, if you have that information, you can simply log into MobileMe and do repeated "Find My iPhones" until you find your beautiful stalkee.
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I wonder if someone could
I wonder if someone could build a GUI that does this for google latitude.
Not really a command line utility
More a snippet of code... I expect it could be built into a command line utility (or more likely a web page, given the fact that it's in php) but it's a long way from usable right now unless you're a programmer.
"only have your MobileMe
"only have your MobileMe username and password and some intermediate coding skills"
al i would need is your band pin etc and NO coding skills to steal all your money, what a silly point
I wonder if someone can find
I wonder if someone can find my stolen iphone with this, i just lost it last Wednesday and I had a mobileme trail.
Apple should provide this
Apple should provide this service. I had suspicions that it would be easy and this proves it.
"Find my iPhone" is neat and all but it has almost no purpose unless your phone is stolen. What would be 100 times more useful is tracking family members or sending out your own tracking information just as this code snippet does.
One could go one's whole life without ever having one's iPhone stolen. In fact most of us will. On the other hand, finding out where the spouse /partner/kid is, is something that you might want to do every day.