Google includes “nuclear” option in Android that disables phone … – Digital Journal

 Android is changing to make it even more useless device in the hand of a thief. Google applied the open source Android, which is offered to any manufacturer of mobile phones, a way to make the device becomes impossible to turn on when you give the signal that your device was subtracted.

the code was introduced in the AOSP (Android Open Source Project, the software that is released to manufacturers) on Friday, with the new remote wipe format. Before, you even had the option to clean the machine after stolen, but the new method goes much further, allowing the device to become a ‘brick’ in the jargon of technology in the hands of the thief.

the method can completely erase any partition of Android device, including key parts of the system as the fastboot and the bootloader, responsible for initiating the process of connecting your phone, and the recovery partition, which makes it difficult to restore the smartphone.

However, even producers will have to choose to which partitions will be included in this command “tijolar» the phone with the ability to include specifics as a partition to an external microSD card, such as note Android Police. Moreover, it is likely that those who apply the feature on their devices must apply also a function that allows the smartphone to be rehabilitated by the legitimate user of the machine which is able to retrieve it.

For now, the only new AOSP resides in, and is not applied, indeed, on any phone, and no operating system version. It is not known whether Google plans to apply to completely disable the phone function on a service like Android Device Manager, which already allows you to remotely delete the contents of a stolen device, which is a measure far less drastic.

it is also necessary to note that such an extreme option as disable a mobile phone requires Google care to create tools so that users with less technical knowledge not accidentally do, and if you do, there is the possibility of reversing the damage.

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