Cory Doctorow: "Imagine a user-centric, data-centric, freedom-centric version of this security measure: all devices would have to be sold with encrypted filesystems by default, so that users whose phones are lost or stolen can be sure that their data is intact, that their bank accounts won’t be raided, that the correspondence with their lawyers and doctors and lovers won’t be read, that their search history and photos won’t be exposed.
OSes would invite users who were worried about deterring physical theft to initialize their devices with a secret — a key or passphrase — that can be entered into a website, which signs it and transmits to the phone, ordering it to wipe itself down to the BIOS. In that scenario, a phone could only be bricked if both the customer and the carrier cooperated." http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/02/an-internet-of-things-that-do-what-theyre-told.html Does the Find My Phone feature in Firefox OS technically allow Mozilla or carriers to wipe Firefox OS phones without the consent of the owner? If so, should we switch to a model like the one Cory proposes? Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
