I'm not sure I understand the disconnect. If I wire up a machine that produces rainbows and unicorns to a button that primarily initiates thermonuclear destruct

I'm not sure I understand the disconnect. If I wire up a machine that produces rainbows and unicorns to a button that primarily initiates thermonuclear destruction, is the button somehow less dangerous? The simple fact is that there is a socket connected on the phone to my left, with exactly the features I just described. Just as it can produce apps at my leisure, similarly it can be used for less desirable actions. In the past, Google have used this legitimately to remove malware, but it's not Google I'm concerned about. One nationstate (China) has already shown Google's production environment little more than a few nasty PDFs sent to the right e-mail addresses away. As for remote wipe, that's a feature of the platform – search for 'android device administrator'.