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

Re:California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ o... by matt-attack on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:40AM (#8225756)

No, it's nothing like a kill-switch. It's simply a key that that actually works. It simply ensures that the key that came with your car is present for the engine to run. The truest definition of a key. There is no remote kill capability.

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Re:California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ o... by michaelt on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @09:31AM (#8226950)

  No, it's nothing like a kill-switch.

It's alike in the manner "stolen item does not work, reducing its stolen goods value"

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Re:California Governor Signs Law Requiring a ‘Kill Switch’ o... by big_youth on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @11:05AM (#8227459)

So the actual equivalent is locking the phone?

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