$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill switch

Re:$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill ... by ggm on Saturday August 15, 2020 @05:47AM (#24167539)

Steve Bellovin asked a good question in twitter: is it a real kill switch which breaks a line or is it a DIP switch which sets a flag the kernel is meant to honour?

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Re:$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill ... by dylz on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:09AM (#24167647)

On mobile currently, but http://files.pine64.org/doc/PinePhone/PinePhone%20v1.2a%20Re... exists if someone wants to take a look.

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Re:$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill ... by swiley on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:23AM (#24167741)

I skimmed over it: for WiFi there’s a switch on the chip enable pin. The modem looks like there’s a switch controlling the power supply.

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Re:$200 PinePhone Linux smartphone comes with physical kill ... by scrps on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#24172980)

Yep they are marked SW1-[A-F] for anyone interested.

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