Do you not keep any data locally on your phone?

Well, it would be if bitcoins could be mined any more with anything smaller than a supercomputer of ASICs.

There was a time when the idea that the government would capture and store every phone conversation and email of its citizens was paranoid

Although, to be fair, everyone with more intelligence than a tuna casserole knew in the 90's that this was happening.

A remote kill-switch on my mobile communications device is just what I need. While we're at it, I'd like one for my car too. And a remote-detonator for my vault of data backups.

Because of course nobody except me could ever trigger them, could they?

Okay, fair call. My bad - I was targeting the ludicrous tap-to-pay system.

I'm fine with chip+pin, so long as it preserves two-factor authentication.

Different "The Hobbit".

You're joking, right? As another poster has said, anyone with an NFC chip can read those cards.

The PayWave system is also being pushed as a single factor payment system. Did you get that? Single. Factor. Wave your card at a cash register and you've paid for your meal. Or your colleagues.

why are they still issuing cards with 1970's era magstripe technology that is so easily intercepted and stolen?

Do you have shares in a card-chipping business?

To be fair, all the other parties also oppose murder of one kind or another.

Now you can brake like a bus!

Here I was hoping this was going to be about a calendar system to replace davical + lightning, Outlook or Google Calendar.

Not so, it seems...

Erm, banks are issuing cards with 2010's era paywave right now, and it's a major step backwards in security. We've gone from two-factor (swipe and PIN) to single-factor wave. Nothing safe about it.

Betty Brown runs over your garden but Violet Gray won't.

The second part.

Exactly. In the Jurassic period, for example, average surface temperatures were almost certainly higher than they are today. Yet the supporters of AGW who complain most about "cherry picking" typically start their graphs and charts after the beginning of the industrial era.

Okay, I don't usually recommend expanding acronyms inline, but here I'm prepared to make an exception...