Project sources are now available in github. Feel free to hack on it. Had plans to port it completely to python (with possible change in LICENSE), but lack of involvement/interest of others made me lose interest. Gradually other activities made me busy.

some comments:
it should be possible to manually run preyd as user from the command line. the downside is, it has to be started on every reboot. The decision to run preyd as root, was made on the premise that root has absolute permission on linux systems. But unfortunately it seems that harmattan somehow manages to adulterate it through aegis