San Fran Politico to Enable Smart Phone Kill Switch Apocalypse?

A California State legislator from San Francisco is introducing legislation to require a hot-phone kill switch in new smart phones. The reasoning is that rendering a stolen phone inoperable by remote control code entry would nihilate its value to thieves. That may be true yet there is a hidden dark side of the force to consider. Legislators may be considering installing a kill switch in opposition political party citizenry too (just kidding).

A Universal kill switch feature on all smart phones sold in California would let the N.S.A., extraterrestrials and wise-guys kill all smart phones in California with a single instruction. That’s a useful tool to have for totalitarian state developers. It’s especially bad in California because outdoor burning is seasonally illegal; after a government takes down smart phones the public might need smoke signals for command and control of well-armed refusnik militia.

One may wonder how the kill switch scenario would fit into government disaster planning advice for families. When I went to school the government prepared adequately with nuclear blast security plans for student safety. Students were instructed to get under our little desk-chairs until the blast was over. The same spirit of enlightenment would encourage Americans today to plan ahead for unforeseeable national emergencies and follow through on plans to rally and cook out with pemmican and biscuit supplies.nable Smart Phone Kill Switch P

If family members are too young to think for-themselves perhaps they shouldn’t be out on their own, even so they may think to call home if the kill switch hasn’t been thrown. Thus plan b is to rendezvous at some safe spot like Uncle Max’s Pizza Joint in Cleveland even if it is where the most concentrated levels of toxins are found or if the metropolitan area was vaporized-it’s the thought that counts. In San Francisco during national emergency legislators with smart phone casualties can meet at the local saloon to buy whiskey for their men and beer for the horses. No national emergency can’t be mitigated by planning and the help of F.E.M.A., not even financial crash.