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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Jun 19, 2014, 11:58 AM Jun 2014

AG Schneiderman announces Google and Microsoft will install kill switch on new devices

CORINNE LESTCH

Technology giants Google and Microsoft will include a kill switch in the new versions of their devices to render them useless if they are reported stolen, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced Thursday.

The kill switch will be incorporated into three popular smartphone operating systems, the Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

Google's operating system, called the Android, runs on more than half of all smartphones used in the country, while Microsoft's system is on all Nokia smartphones.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/ag-schneiderman-announces-google-microsoft-install-kill-switch-new-devices-blog-entry-1.1836016

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AG Schneiderman announces Google and Microsoft will install kill switch on new devices (Original Post) hrmjustin Jun 2014 OP

This is all well and good and I'm pleased it would deter thievery. However, my first thought was monmouth3 Jun 2014 #1

I understand your feelings but I trust the AG. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #2

monmouth3

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1. This is all well and good and I'm pleased it would deter thievery. However, my first thought was

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:16 PM

Jun 2014

that the government will insert themselves in the kill switch if something catastrophic were to happen in the U.S. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but lately......

hrmjustin

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2. I understand your feelings but I trust the AG.

Reply to monmouth3 (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:17 PM

Jun 2014

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