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Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone

Posted by samzenpus on from the wiped-clean dept.

mpicpp writes "It looks thicker than most of the phones you see at Best Buy, but Boeing's first smartphone isn't meant to be used by the average person. The company that's known for its airplanes is joining the smartphone game with the Boeing Black, targeted at people that work in the security and defense industry. One of its security features is self-destructing if it gets into the wrong hands, although not quite in the Mission Impossible sense. According to the company's letter to the FCC, the phone will have screws with a tamper-proof coating, revealing if a person has tried to disassemble it. 'Any attempt to disassemble the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable,' writes Bruce Olcott, an attorney for Boeing."

4 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But the really important question is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it run Slashdot Beta?

    The self-destruction mechanism uses Slashdot Beta code to perform the operation.

  2. Re:Completely Foolproof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "screws with a tamper-proof coating, revealing if a person has tried to disassemble it"

    I'm pretty sure I would notice if someone took a dremel to my phone.

  3. This is going to be hot! by nimid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see they're using the same battery technology they used in the Dreamliner then.

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  4. someone has to ask by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    will it blend?