Off the top of my head, I'd have major security concerns around this because essentially this makes it very easy for an adversary to destroy all data on a system.
That said, in appropriate use cases, there's value for a kill switch or even a dead man's switch (if you don't take some action within every N hours, the device gets wiped). On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, this is just a quick (1hr) sketch that could be developed into a simple > Android application with a big red button, or even a swipe pattern (more > discreet) that unlocks and sends the 'Kill Packet'. Security issues not > addressed in the sketch would be dealt with in turn. -- Kyle Maxwell [[email protected]] http://www.xwell.org Twitter: @kylemaxwell -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
