{"id":11093,"date":"2014-07-08T13:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/android-phones-to-get-kill-switch\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:25:05","slug":"android-phones-to-get-kill-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/android-phones-to-get-kill-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Phones to Get \u2018Kill Switch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Stop Potential Burglars Nabbing Them<\/h3>\n<div>Mobile phones on the android service are set to receive a \u201ckill switch\u201d to stop potential burglars nabbing them. \u201cThe feature is a method of making a handset completely useless if it is stolen, rendering a theft pointless. Authorities have been urging tech firms to take steps to help curb phone theft and argued that a kill-switch feature can help resolve the problem. Apple and Samsung, two of the biggest phone makers, offer a similar feature on some of their devices. \u201c <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>This gives all three of the major operating services a way to combat the rise in mobile thefts. According to a report by US authorities: some 3.1 million mobile devices were stolen in the US in 2013, nearly double the number of devices stolen in 2012; one in three Europeans experienced the theft or loss of a mobile device in 2013; in South Korea, mobile device theft increased five-fold between 2009 and 2012; and in Colombia, criminals stole over one million devices in 2013. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A \u201chard\u201d kill switch would render a stolen device permanently unusable and is favoured by legislators who want to give stolen devices the \u201cvalue of a paperweight\u201d. A \u201csoft\u201d kill switch only make a phone unusable to \u201can unauthorised user\u201d. Some argue that the only way to permanently disable a phone is to physically damage it. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Experts worry that hackers could find a way to hijack a kill signal and turn off phones, and if a phone is turned off or put into aeroplane mode, it might not receive the kill signal at all. Further, authorities claim that Apple\u2019s feature \u2014 dubbed Activation Lock, which it introduced on all iPhones running the iOS 7 operating system in September last year \u2014 has helped reduce theft substantially. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop Potential Burglars Nabbing Them Mobile phones on the android service are set to receive a \u201ckill switch\u201d to stop potential burglars nabbing them. \u201cThe feature is a method of making a handset completely useless if it is stolen, rendering a theft pointless. Authorities have been urging tech firms to take steps to help curb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}