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First,
I love the idea, and want it. here is what I understand:
1) It disables the phone, until the phone is brought into a service center, and the person verifies they are the proper owner. Then they allow the phone to be on the network again, and function. (Does not permanently destroy)
2) It Blanks the phone, so your personal data is not in there. (but in my case, most can be retrieved once I sign back into the phone and sync with google). I will probably lose my high scores on sudoku and 2048 
3) It Locks the phone from being usable
4) It serves as a STRONG deterrent to being stolen. Who wants a phone, that within a couple of hours will be useless?
5) I strongly believe that part of the reason is so that our government can disable a bunch of phones for Cliven Bundy supports, just to piss them off...
6) I also feel that if Senators, or Congressman are going to be caught, they will order their phones zapped, even while they are sitting in a police evidence locker...
Now, what will happen?
1) Some smart kids will show people that they put the phone into a foil bag upon stealing it.
2) They only open the phone inside of a radio free zone
3) They hack the phone with software, and disable the feature through some kind of DEBUG mode that the stupid phone company left enabled
4) At least the phone will be usable, with all of the data on it still... Although the communications will be disabled, until they can figure a way to change the chips (as someone else mentioned... very difficult).
It will again give us ANOTHER chance to give up freedom in exchange for FEELING more secure.
As long as we know, we know what to avoid.
I like the idea of wiping the phone, AND FORCING IT to send us it's GPS Coordinates when it does it!
This way they can actually show us
"Your Phone has been disabled... When you find it upstairs in the spare bedroom on the dresser to NE corner of the room, where you have at least 1 unregistered gun... Bring it in to get it re-enabled for a small fee!"
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Unique identifiers on phones can be changed by flashing, but yeah, you're right, it should be trivial for network operators to block such devices from being used on their networks. I think that a kill switch is a good idea, but it could be abused by governments or resourceful hackers.
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It is trivial for networks to not allow the phones onto the network, yes, but that's only part of the question. You mention deleting data, which is the rest of the issue. The existence of a mere network identifier doesn't make it possible to actually delete anything or prevent the phone from booting up, reading data, using WiFi, and so on, it only works to keep the phone from working as a phone.
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Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 [^].
This APOD neatly illustrates the vastness of space: Quote: A mere 46 million light-years distant
Is that all? 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: Is that all?
That's only 303 quintillion miles!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I just discovered that CodeProject lets you rate your own articles. I just rated my new article[^] a 5 and gave myself 40 points.
Is this by design or is this a bug?
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Post this in the Suggestions and Bugs forum.
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He will, just as soon as he's done voting for his own articles. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I did and it seems it is allowed by design. Saves us time creating sock puppet accounts and upvoting 
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Not much different from creating a sock puppet and doing so. :shrug:
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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It would take a lot of effort to get a sock puppet to the point to where it could award you 40 points.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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But it would be easy for 4 sock puppets to give you 40 points.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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There's experience talking.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Really? Boy, am I going to be busy today!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Commandment #11: Thy shall return all favors
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I can't see why the author should be excluded from voting. On the other hand I don't see the benefit of voting your own articles, I'd rather let others to judge the content
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Some people are under the mistaken assumption that the reputaion points on any given public forum actually means something, or or the the points have an intrinsic value that transfers over to them personally.
Given the opportunity, how many facebook people would "like" themselves a billion times to give the appearance that they are somehow popular?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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What is this Facebook
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Quote: Some people are under the mistaken assumption that the reputaion points on any given public forum actually means something
Says the guy with only 51K points.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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51K for random bad jokes, clicking on this that or assisting the occasional noob in Q&A, but no real effort spent.
Hasn't helped me at all professionally. I'm sure that if I mention my rep points at review time they add 10% to my merit raise... 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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On CP the points do mean something, since privileges are unlocked by gaining reputation. I certainly don't want spammers to have the power to post articles without moderation or to approve their spamming buddies' articles. I also don't want trolls to disapprove legitimate articles or edit other people's questions for fun.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Get the source code, and search for TrapForCheatersWhoNeedToBeBanned
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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