California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ on Smartphones

Re:California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ o... by Theodores on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:36PM (#8225244)

At some stage smartphones will become as cheap and ubiquitous as Nokia feature phones were before the iphone took hold. Sure they will have some secondhand/stolen goods value - $10 - but buyers might be hard to find as, by then, it might cost $30 to buy a new one. When this point happens (and it will), it will be hard to sell $$$ mega-bucks phones as new or into the second hand/stolen market.

People used to burgle houses for VCR's once, and for DVD players. Nowadays a DVD player is a giveaway item, nobody gets them stolen anymore.

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Re:California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ o... by NickNam on Monday August 25, 2014 @10:53PM (#8225481)

I think the data that is stored on phones will still make them a target. A better reference would be stolen laptops... I wonder how much they get stolen nowadays. (The TSA seems to have tons of them left a check points, so who knows what that means. http://www.americanownews.com/story/22046003/12000-laptops-l...)

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