<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM, John Harig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radiodurans@yahoo.com">radiodurans@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
After reading about kill switches on iphones now google seems to have one as well, and this article tries to explains why it is a good thing:<br>
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<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/152383/why_androids_kill_switch_is_a_good_thing.html" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/article/152383/why_androids_kill_switch_is_a_good_thing.html</a><br>
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Are kill switches a good thing? If android is open-source, does that mean you can clearly see how the kill-switch works?<br>
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Im a little wary of kill switches being installed on my personal devices. At least google openly admitted it . . . but should it even be there in the first place?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>I think it's idealistically wrong. It seems akin to Tivoization, which has always seemed odd to me that<br>it took the TiVo to realize what has always been the gaming console standard way of market lock in.<br>
<br>I'm sure they use regionalism also to rape the less consumer protected markets like DVDs do.<br><br>If it's an open computing device then I should be able to brick it and install anything for any purpose from the OS to the apps and remove/replace any chips I want. It's the right to tinker that game console makers always have fought against with the modder community.<br>
<br>No using the Android as GPS tracker, monitor/snooper, or remote detonator device for you.<br></div>