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This is not Google per se, it is a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync plugin feature. When you install the Exchange ActiveSync plugin[1], it requests that you autho
by gvb 16y ago
This is not Google per se, it is a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync plugin feature. When you install the Exchange ActiveSync plugin[1], it requests that you authorize the software to have the authority to wipe your phone. You must accept that or not use ActiveSync.
The advantage of ActiveSync is "push" email notifications and integration of your Exchange calendar and address book with the base Android calendar and address book.
If you use IMAP to access the Exchange server, the Exchange server cannot wipe your phone.
If you connect to Google's servers (IMAP), Google cannot wipe your phone via their servers.
[1] On my Nexus One, the ActiveSync email plugin was pre-installed and I don't remember seeing the request for wipe permissions when I first configured it. When Google (or whoever) pushed an update for the ActiveSync plugin, it did ask me for wipe permission. That was my first clue that I sold my soul.
- adolph 16y agoYes, it isn't a Google-specific issue in general; the link to Google is me-specific in that I linked my phone to Google in this way. I did it for specific reasons (contacts mostly) and initially without knowledge of the possibility or remote wipe. It is interesting that the Android plugin has some UI words about the authority to wipe the phone. In my recollection iOS did not display anything like that. It is also interesting that Google's set-up tutorial for iOS promotes the ActiveSync method but doesn't mention remote wipe: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252 http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=13...