

When you create the ability to brick phones you create the ability to mass-brick phones. Imagine a totalitarian regime seeing an uprising on the horizon and bricking the phones of protesters that attended some protest. Imagine hackers or three -letter agencies getting this ability wanting to disrupt the economy of a town, city, or country. I wouldn’t be opposed to someone having software on their phone to remote brick it. I’d be surprised if something like that didn’t already exist. It’s government mandating a backdoor that’s the problem.


I want the ability to follow users. It’s trivial on Reddit.