Ok, what? So you'll still be paying to have the phone functionality, but you won't be using it, instead springing for something that has no cost to AT&T? Now I wonder why they might offer it. Hell, there's probably already an "app" for that.

This reminds me of all the trouble that you see theives go through to get blueprints so they can break into buildings. Now thanks to Google, this is not longer an issue! You can break into banks on a whim!

Unless they plan on using a fMRI as a means of determining if something is deceased, I fail to see the problem with it. The actual signals would probably override any kind of intrinsic result for the control tests.

Does the government actually believe that they will be able to outcode any determined hackers? Not only a hacker, actually, anyone with a bittorrent .exe on their drive. Australia, you cannot stop them, only slow them down.