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What really scares is me is "combined with third party service provider support" part. That means it is not just you who has the capability to flip the switch.
by erglkjahlkh 12y ago
What really scares is me is "combined with third party service provider support" part. That means it is not just you who has the capability to flip the switch.
Imagine someone breaking into service provider's database, acquiring all the keys. That couldn't surely happen, could it?
- finid 12y agoThat, plus backdoor access by your favorite, 3-letter govt agency.
- extrapolate 12y agoThere needs to be another party in there to communicate with the phone regardless, right? I simply interpret that quote to mean you can use the "switch" with a 3rd party service like Android Device Manager / Cerberus, that Qualcomm is not operating directly. Actually, looking at the video it appears they're partnering with https://www.lookout.com/ https://www.lookout.com/ for this.
- jen729w 12y agoI saw the same sentence but I just laughed - I read that as "your crappy provider has to somehow enable this, which they're obviously not going to bother doing".
- rdc12 12y agoDepends if Sony is hosting them or not (this is only partially a joke)
- th0br0 12y agoIntel's been offering that for some of their processors for quite some time (vPro)... also third party provider, I believe they inject a rootkit into Windows upon bootup. But you can (supposedly) irreversibly disable it fortunately.