Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is in favor of someone having the kill switch.

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What if a remote kill switch could be thrown to "fry" a stolen smartphone or tablet, making it truly useless?

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That's what Google's dealing with this week, by utilizing Android's remote kill switch to delete them over the air.

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If China did face all-out digital war, it might have at least one resource that the U.S. wouldn't: an Internet kill switch.

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In 2007, Myanmar also flipped a kill switch on its single Internet service provider, creating a digital blackout that lasted close to a week.

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So it seems to me that Google kill switch example showed how the operating system is taking the security into its own hands in mobile devices, in a way that has never happened before.

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So... the exact opposite of a kill switch.

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Last week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, led by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) became the subject of some debate when news spread that it was calling for a so-called "internet kill switch" which would give the President the power to shut down the whole darn thing in a state of emergency.

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