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The kill switch, as designed by the civic agencies asking for it, would be undoable by the owner: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb_

by raldi 13y ago

The kill switch, as designed by the civic agencies asking for it, would be undoable by the owner: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb_962_bill_20140206_introduced.htm http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb... A key quote: "The rightful owner [...] may affirmatively elect to disable the technological solution" It's nothing like "giving the government full, unfettered access to our phones."

JTxt 13y ago
Where is this killswitch proposal? I'm curious who and how it could be activated and how you verify the owner.
JTxt 13y ago
Thanks for adding the link! Here's the latest version: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB962 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?... A part I'm concerned about: "(d) Any request by a government agency to interrupt communications service utilizing a technological solution required by this section is subject to Section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code." Skip to 7908 here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=puc&group=07001-08000&file=7901-7912 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=puc&gr... So, this kill-switch may not be 100% controlled by the device owner. I'd be OK with a required/opt-out kill-switch only if I was the only person that could possibly brick my device with it. (That's a hard problem to make user-friendly and educate people about. A private key I create and store physically/securely somehow?) Otherwise, I don't really own my device. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing "TC is controversial as the hardware is not only secured for its owner, but also secured against its owner."