Friday, October 17, 2008

Petition: Google Remove Kill Switch From Android

Petition: Google Remove Kill Switch From Android

Apple seems to have triggered a new era of control and dictatorship. The much touted iPhone came with a kill switch which could be used by Apple to remove any application from your iPhone if they think it is not supposed to be there. Google has also done the same. We are not used to such kind of control yet.

The control is ok that you cut my power supply (electricity) or stop my telecom services if I fail to pay the bills, but putting switches on devices which gives these companies over what I should be installing on my machines is a big danger. If there are not strong protests against these, we will soon find ourselves trapped in a new kind of slavery. We are already fighting with an old enemy proprietary and closed source technologies and its a very long war. Now, what Apple and Google are doing is starting a new chain. Before we create another front to fight at, why not nip it in bud and start filing petitions asking authorities to have kill switch kind of mechanisms to be removed from such devices.

Start Signing here....

Please also suggest measures how to stop this further.