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Nice, a kill switch in every phone. When there’s a big demonstration/revolution we’re just gonna kill all the phones out there with a simple data packet.
by kirab 13y ago
Nice, a kill switch in every phone. When there’s a big demonstration/revolution we’re just gonna kill all the phones out there with a simple data packet.
- revscat 13y agoIt would be a dumb idea to take your device to a revolution in the first place.
- vdaniuk 13y agoAs a Ukrainian, who has seen that smartphones, especially used by citizen streamers, are extremely important for a revolution, I can assure that you are wrong.
- undoware 13y agoBump this n times. I love it when activists get blamed for doing it wrong, where 'it' basically boils out to 'trying'.
- aric 13y agoInformation, organization, and gathering evidence are fundamental to human rights, let alone to a revolution. Authoritarians naturally wish to ensure it becomes a "dumb idea."
- prodigal_erik 13y agoFor revolutionaries to assume they can rely on a system that authoritarians control is inherently a dumb idea, and the lack of any good alternatives doesn't change that.
- pessimizer 13y agoThe authoritarians control the streets. Where exactly are you going to go in an authoritarian system where you won't have to rely on something under authoritarian control? The authoritarians control you, that's why you're in the streets.
- aric 13y agoYes, of course. One should assume nothing. However, an even dumber idea is to advocate for a system to have more control, actively or by remaining silent, and then later stew in fatalism to the point of thinking that using a smartphone in a revolution is "dumb."
- oftenwrong 13y agoThat has already happened in CA: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/subway-internet-shuttering/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/subway-internet-shu...
- raldi 13y agoTurning off the underground cellular repeaters you own and maintain is not the same thing as remote-bricking someone else's phone.