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New Apple 'Camera' Patent Will Allow Remote Shutdown of Your Phone or its Features

Good point

This doesn't sound like a thing a free country does.

If they had a shutdown of your phone in a theater imagine if you had something similar to the shooting in Colorado happen. I don't think you would need the people in the theater to call, there are plenty of others who would, but there would be valuable time lost.

I don't understand what they would intend to do with this function.

I'm sure the BlackBerry staff are licking their lips right now because their security is undoubtedly some of the best in the industry and we all know they will make a marketing campaign including this whole new function saying only a BlackBerry is safe from it.
 
I don't understand what they would intend to do with this function.
I actually did think of a few logical purposes to this technology. I work for a company that has contracts with intel. There are no phones allowed inside the facilities. If you're important enough to the company to need a phone in there, they have specific ones that you have to trade for when you go in that have no cameras. Having a phone that automatically disables the camera would streamline that process and allow you to keep the same phone at all times in case there is any sort of data on the phone you may need while inside or something along those lines. I also have a friend that works for the aerospace division of Honeywell, where they have many government contracts for classified projects. Their company phones are piles of ****, because any phone worth a **** today has a camera. Something like this would have a practical purpose for these types of applications. Considering the amount of invasion into our lives they could do with smartphones already, that many people knowingly and intentionally do anyways (geo-tagging pictures, checking in everywhere on facebook, they can track exactly where you are with your GPS whenever, and so on and so on...), I don't think this is that big of an issue, but I still have no intention of buying a phone equipped as such. I won't buy a phone that even has a locked bootloader though. Just a different perspective to keep in mind. Big brother? Yes. Malicious? No.
 
The problem is the matter of who is in control of the feature. Do you really want a company that literally sends thugs to their employees' homes to shake them down having that kind of power over a device? I certainly don't see any good coming out of it.
 
if someone wants to take a photo of some sensitive info then they will find a way to do it.. limiting us common folk with our fancy smartphones will hardly enforce any security

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for that application the tech doesn't seem that bad.

from that point view the technology doesn't seem that bad. My only worry is if the technology falls into the hands of some with bad intentions, I would be worried that they would disable my communication so they could come in to my house and carry out their objective that doesn't work for me and I won't be able to call 911. If any governmental officials got greedy they could disable parts of our phones rendering them useless. I would hope Honeywell could trust their employees enough to where they didn't need a program to knock out cell phones with the fear of potentially damaging photographs being taken in their building. Or is it really that cut throat where your company needs to control their employees to such a degree because of security risks?
 
The problem is the matter of who is in control of the feature. Do you really want a company that literally sends thugs to their employees' homes to shake them down having that kind of power over a device? I certainly don't see any good coming out of it.
in the use I'm referring to. I would imagine that it would be something just built into the GPS. The "concert" application of this tech seems stupid though. I don't understand where "thugs" coming to someone's house comes into play though. The camera would prevent the picture, no? So what would these "thugs" be going to someone's house to do?
if someone wants to take a photo of some sensitive info then they will find a way to do it.. limiting us common folk with our fancy smartphones will hardly enforce any security

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sure. And if someone REALLY wants to hack into business servers and whatnot, they can find a way as well. That doesn't mean these companies shouldn't at least try to prevent it

from that point view the technology doesn't seem that bad. My only worry is if the technology falls into the hands of some with bad intentions, I would be worried that they would disable my communication so they could come in to my house and carry out their objective that doesn't work for me and I won't be able to call 911. If any governmental officials got greedy they could disable parts of our phones rendering them useless. I would hope Honeywell could trust their employees enough to where they didn't need a program to knock out cell phones with the fear of potentially damaging photographs being taken in their building. Or is it really that cut throat where your company needs to control their employees to such a degree because of security risks?
it is really that cut-throat. My company does contract work for Intel, there are NO phones allowed in some of their FABs. As for your concern about cutting your communication, I don't mean to alarm you, but that is already easy to do, with cheap devices: Cell Phone Jammer :: Phonejammer.com :: Buy Here !
 
sure. And if someone REALLY wants to hack into business servers and whatnot, they can find a way as well. That doesn't mean these companies shouldn't at least try to prevent it[/url]

they do that to prevent just anyone from hacking them... yes a top level hacker most likely will get through anyway... but we're not talking about that...i'm talking about if your phone isn't able to take a pic... another device readily available will be able to

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they do that to prevent just anyone from hacking them... yes a top level hacker most likely will get through anyway... but we're not talking about that...i'm talking about if your phone isn't able to take a pic... another device readily available will be able to

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you still need to get said device inside, thus the comparison between this and hacking. You need to come up with a way to get the camera in. It's not as simple as throwing it into a briefcase and cruising past security
 
you still need to get said device inside, thus the comparison between this and hacking. You need to come up with a way to get the camera in. It's not as simple as throwing it into a briefcase and cruising past security

and if they were that strict with security and frisked every employee and checked all their stuff they wouldn't even have the phone on them for them to need to prevent them from taking pictures in the first place... they're trying to eliminate devices from our side instead of them having to do it.... so unless they come up with a method that will not allow any device to take a photo then people will still be able to take photos whether its a disposable a phone or an ipod

I was messing with an ipod touch yesterday and its mega thin... I could put that literally anywhere

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This is bad for the activist community. Would take much for the cops to use this to turn off cameras and then really let loose with their typical heavy handed tactics.
 
This is bad for the activist community. Would take much for the cops to use this to turn off cameras and then really let loose with their typical heavy handed tactics.

yea a lot of new age hippies have apple products lol... I remember one of them in occupy wall street complaining about someone stealing his $4,000 computer.... if u have that kinda money to spend on a computer what are u fighting for lol

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yea a lot of new age hippies have apple products lol... I remember one of them in occupy wall street complaining about someone stealing his $4,000 computer.... if u have that kinda money to spend on a computer what are u fighting for lol

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I don't think the new patent will affect anything public because someone like me who has a superzoom camera doesn't need a cellphone to be operational to take a picture.

that's funny about the Occupy Wall Street people, I don't want to get too far into that but it doesn't surprise me. I don't think Apple will do too well after this. It will probably lose a lot of business from a lot of people. Do you think any resentment will come after this patent gets used for the first time?
 
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