[GRLUG] kill switches

[Tim Schmidt]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> You keep constructing a false dilemma.  Your going from a kill switch to
> specifically disable a specified application to "controls your phone /
> computer / GPS / camera / microphone / bluetooth / wifi device."

Your understanding of what sort of remote control is required to
implement said "kill switch" is incomplete.

> If this were true the Earth would be a burnt cinder.

As any student of history can tell you has often been the case.  Our
brief respite of relative calm in the developed west has been a
localized, and recent event.

> Yes, in this case, represented by the Google apps store (or whom ever
> has app-kill authority).  Notice that in this case the "distributors"
> are the cell phone providers.

Right.  And since neither of them are willing to allow you oversight
(by looking at the source), neither can be (wisely) trusted.

--tim