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Minnesota passes nation’s first smartphone ‘kill switch’ law
Washington Post ^
| 5/15/2014
| NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Posted on 05/15/2014 3:53:54 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: jdege
All of the providers will let you close your account, and all of those that are using SIMs will let you unregister the SIM. Either of these will prevent thieves from using your phone on your dime. But they wont prevent a thief from installing a new SIM.
For most phone-saving programs, yes. But it depends on how the program is set up. My buddies made a Android program,
SeekDroid, that runs off the imei for your device. So even if a thief pulls the SIM/replaces it, SeekDroid'll still be able to locate/lock the phone. The only way to get around it would be to reflash the phone with another ROM.
To: markomalley
Minnesota - the land of ‘we don’t get it’ and we’re proud of it...
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posted on
05/15/2014 8:22:11 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
To: markomalley
Cops will love this when you are ‘caught’ filming them in public beating someone.
To: markomalley
And here I thought this was about giving our government (yeah the one that is supposed to work for us) the power to kill our communications, the cell system and the internet.
To: Still Thinking
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posted on
05/15/2014 11:37:46 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Gaffer; napscoordinator
I have an “application” I can “press” which allows me to remotely kill the guy who just grabbed my cell phone - but it didn’t come from Apple.
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posted on
05/15/2014 11:40:49 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: WayneS
I have that same app too:o)
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posted on
05/15/2014 11:49:49 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: WayneS
lol. I think that is the best ever.
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posted on
05/15/2014 12:04:45 PM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
To: markomalley
Why not put a kill switch in a six pack of beer.
Put a capsule of hemlock in each can that can be remotely triggered to mix upon opening a tin of suds.
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posted on
05/15/2014 4:47:04 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: winner3000
People steal smart phones when they rob somebody so that the victim cannot call for help.
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posted on
05/16/2014 8:18:47 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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