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[Daniel Clem <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would like to reinforce the notion of keeping big brother from abusing this kind of thing. Very very serious caution should be taken on this point. I feel that a special password ( not users or root)  should be required to give them access in this way. So that in other normal times they would have no access what so ever. Not even simple GPS or network traffic. Nothing.

Also I am completely against making signing up to Cloud services mandatory! It would be fine to explain the benefits during setup. And encourage the less tech savy person to sign up to protect them from data losses. But I am always keep backups of files on my own, and solely use the cloud for convenience of file transfer or keeping certain things in sync. I DO NOT want my whole life in the cloud.

I will not go into the political reasons why I take this firm stance as that's not the purpose of this list. But simply say that there are not nearly enough benefits to out way the big brother risks of abuse.

If indepth discussion is desired on this point. I suggest there be a special IRC appointment or forum thread so to not clog up this list.

   God Bless,
         Dan

"Bill R. WASHBURN" <dygituljunky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Device-level remote location and remote wipe should be built in to the
>platform for theft prevention and higher stolen phone recovery rates.
>Apple
>has this almost right but signing up for the iCloud security features
>is
>still optional. Finding and recovering stolen devices is far, far, far
>easier with iCloud enabled. Make this part of the process of activating
>the
>device.
>
>Allow, through the device recovery on the user's cloud account, remote
>activation of the GPS, remote triggering of the find-me alarm, remote
>audio
>pickup, and automatic uploading of new pictures. Consult with law
>enforcement during development to include other useful information.
>
>Include the ability for the user to allow law enforcement access to
>these
>features without providing the primary account password to law
>enforcement.
>Include security features to prevent this feature from being abused by
>oppressive governments. Design this system so that user consent and
>knowledge is required before the feature can be activated from the
>cloud.
>
>Register devices by a unique serial number. Devices reported stolen
>should
>be prevented from being activated.
>
>All of this should be done in a way to prevent big brother from abusing
>the
>user yet should allow big brother to help little brother when someone
>steals the device from little brother.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill R. WASHBURN
>
>
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