With no baseband, you don't have the option to use the phone network. And a generic Chinese phone would likely not honor the kill request anyway.

What's "TSA apologist"? Anyone who doesn't share your ideals?

It may have worked out differently for you, but T1 where I was was all about call time, nothing else mattered. So long as no official complaint was lodged, hanging up on people was allowed (and unofficially condoned/supported). For most, it's a dead end.

I know what it means, and I know what people think it means, and I know they don't match. Using the common definition, even if it doesn't match your definition isn't an error.

Only ones they have the names and subscriber info for. They can't turn off the phones of everyone in a group near a riot. For that, they would just turn off the towers.

Put it in airplane mode and it turns off the radio. They can't brick it then. So if you find yourself being paranoid, turn on airplane, turn on wifi, and backup your phone, then turn off airplane.

More realistically, based on government bad acts, this would get the most use when someone needs to be "taken out" by the government. The government would plant child porn on their phone and arrest them. Political crimes are prosecuted in the US, we just say they aren't, and use one of the three felonies a day to prosecute political criminals. Get someone in prison, even for a day, and they will be ruined for life (discredited, unable to get any more jobs, etc.), and you can always blame them for an inmate death, and keep them there indefinitely, even if they went in for a non-violent felony, they can spend their whole lives there, if the government wanted.

They aren't searching people for criminal reasons. You aren't under suspicion of a crime, and nothing found will be used to investigate that crime. Theoretically, if they found evidence of smuggling, they are required to pass you through security unmolested (provided you meet all the other requirements). It's for that reason that they are "legal".

You aren't implicitly consenting by getting in a plane I've flown a number of times with no search at all. You are explicitly complying when you walk past the "you will be searched if you pass this sign" sign. That isn't implicitly waiving a constitutional right. That's explicitly doing it.

Anarchy exists until the first person makes a suggestion. An unorganized mob following a good idea is democracy, not anarchy.

Roads were either on government land or private land. If government, then they were unimproved trails used as roads. If over private, they ended up being toll roads.

The need to move wasn't a government idea. People moved long before roads existed. Roads just improved movement. The first ones were "government" as in small upgrades to natural trails to help people move.

They have to know the names of everyone whose phones they want to turn off. They don't have it. Also, this would work once. After that, everyone in such a situation would put their phone in airplane mode when they thing The Man might be out for them, and turn on Wifi to upload the video with no risk of bricking.

It's easier to just shoot everyone holding a phone and claim it looked like a gun.

But it's not an en masse tool. How do you wipe a crowd's phones when the code needs to be transmitted by the carrier to a specific phone, identified by account number (derivable by name)? They'd need to shut down the tower, and physically round up the people to stop them. And the phones are immune to bricking if you put them in airplane mode and turn on wifi. You can still connect to the cloud, and upload videos, but the kill code needs to go over the cell network, so they can't kill it.

Also, this means that the stolen phones can be used as a small tablet without being locked out.

How would they know the person had it? This would only work once. After that, everyone would know that if you catch The Man doing something, you put your phone in airplane mode, then turn on wifi. You can upload it then and are immune to carrier bricking signals.

When you see everything hitting the fan, you put your phone in flight mode, and turn on WiFi. From how I've seen it described, you'll be 100% immune to the government bricking ability, and you only need a hotspot to get the video out.

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