Ideas
Welcome to Prey’s ideas tracker. Feel free to suggest anything you think might be useful, like new features, improvements on the current ones, etc.
This is not a support forum. Check your Control Panel for support if you’re a Pro user; or go to http://answers.preyproject.com/ for community support.
Please keep the ideas flowing in English only.
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216 votes
We’ll do it in a way you don’t necessarily need to be connected, but it will serve the purpose.
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Prey for Maemo/MeeGo
Nokia has released Maemo (N900) and will release soon a compatible new version, MeeGo (N9) devices, they're both using GNU/Linux and making Prey work with them would be very easy, and great!
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Remote wipe data
It would be very nice if I could trigger a remote wipe of the user-data (or perhaps all the data) to prevent that sensitive data is getting into the wrong hands.
68 votes -
Email Reports From the Control Panel
Rather than giving users an either/or choice of emailing results to an inbox or accessing the reports from the control panel, it would be nice to have reports sent to an email address while having devices managed through the control panel.
66 votesDoes sound like a good idea and doesn’t seem too hard. Good one.
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Android: Hard Reset (Factory Settings) Proof on rooted Devices
Would be nice to see a feature like this.
Some technical thoughts about it:
With 'adb pull' and 'push' it's possible to install it as system app on rooted Android Phones.
System Apps keep persistent, even on Hard-Reset. But Settings are wiped out on Reset.
If Prey can't find the settings, which are always stored in /data/data/, it contacts the prey Server with it's IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) and downloads saved Settings automatically.
Prey should automaticaly start Tracking and send the User an E-Mail: "Your Android Phone was reseted."
Advantage on rooted Devies: GPS can be enabled without User…
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Allow for deletion of multiple reports at one time
It would be nice to delete all of my reports at once rather than going through each one individually.
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webcam light
I tested this on my hp laptop. The webcam light would turn on every time it took a photo. So it was telling the user that someone had access to the webcam. Letting the thief know that they’re being watched. Can this be fixed.
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Android remote wipe user data
Have an option to remote wipe user data, messages, passwords etc but still keep the phone lock and accessible by prey
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Auto Update
Auto update silently background when device starts up.
Also email alerts about new versions of Prey.
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twitter/facebook status update
Would like this to update my twitter/facebook status w/ pictures and maybe geo-location as well as a message to all my friends that my laptop is missing and for them to be on the lookout. Must be optional and configurable.
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Be able to create our own programs that are run by prey and uploaded to the control panel.
In this way, the community could quickly create new custom "checks" to help determine the location of your laptop. This would come in handy for custom requests like a certain built-in GPS or other things specific to your individual laptop. It could then place the output file(s) (.txt, .jpg, .mp3, etc) in a specific "prey watched" folder and prey could upload them and provide links to each on the control panel. If that's too much server load, then we can just have the files attached to an email and use the built in SMTP functionality of prey.
9 votesPrey is composed by modules so anyone can write its own and then send it so we can add it. We still need to write good documentarion, but in the meantime you can look at the repository over here: github.com/tomas/prey-modules
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hide prey icon android
Hi
Is it possible to hide the Prey icon from my android phone so would be thieves would not know that I have this program installed?
8 votes -
opensuse
Please Provide an rpm Package for Prey. So all the OpenSuse and Fedora Guys can install Prey as easily like the Ubuntu ones :)
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Ability to lock Android phone via SMS without an internet connection
When "Go Prey" is sent to an Android phone with Prey installed, that phone must have an internet connection some sorts for the actions to occur.
Currently if the phone has no internet connection (through WiFi or GPRS/3G), nothing happens.
This features would make the phone lock when the "Go Prey" text message is received regardless of if there is an internet connection available.7 votes -
PPA for the Ubuntu package
This would make it a lot more convenient to update the package for Ubuntu users, and would require minimum effort from your side.
6 votes -
Sticker sold and 4 display on PC
Like a car alarm you should create a small sticker for sale (~$0.99) to warn thieves that Prey is on your device. The sticker should not be any bigger than that like an Intel i7 or Win7 sticker that you typically find on computers.
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Peer to Peer Streaming abilitys. Such as webcam streaming Or fast screenshoting for multiple picture
Peer to Peer Streaming abilitys. Such as webcam streaming Or fast screenshoting for multiple pictures. So it appears to be a video once all pictures are combined. or maybe a key logger to view keystrokes
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Prey client for iPhone
Prey client for iPhone and iPad, where people could track their PCs or MACs via iOS devices.
5 votes -
You should be able to add a phone online somehow that would be absouloutley great!
You should be able to add a phone from the website!
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Hangs if "prey-picture.png" already exists
-- Taking a picture of the impostor...
c:\prey\bin\mv.exe: replace `c:\prey/prey-picture.png', overriding mode 0666?Presumably Prey got killed before finishing and didn't clean up. This shouldn't prevent Prey from running the next time. I guess one line in one of the scripts will fix this
4 votesNext version fixes lots of problems regarding webcam capturing in Windows, including this one.
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