Top down the political class knows where its re election cash is flowing from and why.
You are seeking capitalism, entrepreneurship and a vibrant local telco sector.
Think about your local laws and community broadband. http://arstechnica.com/busines...
Structural separation will ensure any local, state or national provider can offer its network down to homes without been shut out by any one regional monopoly.
You can enjoy your own phone. Set your own plan on a long list of approved hardware devices under their own in store branding.
New fashion colors every few months and all the benefits of a dynamic and very competitive consumer hardware market.
Enjoy the freedom to select from several closed source or fully open source product lines.
If you like you can even write free or for profit programs for the 32,000,000 customers via dynamic and free to join online marketplace or shop.
Welcome to your new telco system. One Contract, One Network, Universal Surveillance.
New owners: Competition is a sin.
NSA: One company would be more easy to deal with.
Federal law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with.
State law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with. Can we keep the networks on copper or coaxial cable in use for a few more decades?
City law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with. Optical networks are too expensive to tap. Offer more very low cost mobile plans.
Customers: Free mobile with my new internet plan on a 24 month contract. The freedom of choice to be online sitting at home or on the move. Every 24 months I get a new free mobile phone.... freedom of choice from a huge selection of approved mobile phones.
Options:
MI6 warned the UK gov and was privately able to secure the power sector over a very long time.
GCHQ was working with the power sector over a very time.
The UK power sector is air gapped with unionized staff at each site unreachable by most modern internet code floating around.
All the other nations listed rebuilt their power sectors with a series of open internet connections. Very few top staff member with laptops could complete their tasks off site via the internet at a lower cost.
The only aspect of the UK grid open to networking is billing and secretarial support due to the age or expert design of the per site bespoke systems.
GCHQ has a UK wide super firewall they did not tell anyone about:)
Any group can be used to fake an ip and work on shifts or use friendly 'locals' to provide the press spin of the expected evil/cover country of origin.
Lots of software gets tested, lost, sold, re built and re tested in the wild by many different groups.
A nation state would have real staff, real experts and real connections to the power sector to test all they like without any code needing a live test.
Why show your hand even if you need to test live? Why risk your skilled tight code floating around for many other govs and skilled AV firms to study?
Skilled nations have vast crews working on other problems - unique, special, air gapped sites that can only be accessed by mil/gov or contractors. Thats the focus of their experts, their spies, their dual citizens, people of the same faith long term.
Motive for this is just the usual new security product to sell/rent, domestic laws to change, political grandstanding.
The win is a boondoggle, security sector lobbying and press fun for the bellicose and militaristic.
Real nations have much more interesting long term projects to task on much more interesting sectors ie open networks are open to everybody on the 'net'.
Any country can fake an entry point in another country with timezones to match or use their own diaspora to fake a networking origin.
Who is using code, paying for code, where it is uploaded or controlled from can be well covered from a list of nations.
So many groups in gov, mil, the private cyber security contracting sector sector have really been pushing stories like this for the past decades.
The tame press, AC's, academics and sock puppets then drum up the need for expensive products and new cyber laws to cover simple network cost cutting.
Having real staff watch over a site is now been replaced with cheap networking. That network is the free 'internet' and a few skilled staff can watch over many sites 24/7.
Staff numbers could be cut, fewer real experts would be needed.
The networks are not hardened or unique to a plant or site. Too much consumer grade software and networking open to the outside world was used.
This is not news, was not unexpected and is an ongoing issue due to cost cuts and staffing... ie an onsite design issue.
Down the "AC" list:
illegal immigration: Provides union free workers that nobody will care for, no health and work place safety inspections. Limb loss or a toxic work environment is not an issue. Great for low wages protecting high valued added prices on an industrial scale where robots just are not ready yet.
Some profits flow back to local and federal politicians as donations. A thank you to keep the boarders wide open.
Young fit dreamers get free citizenship in the military for the next round of distant wars and occupations vs the unfit, criminal or not so smart clogging up local recruitment lists.
Due to citizenship status they might not be listed as real US mil deaths in combat - great for press spin after the Vietnam draft numbers.
legal immigration (H1B caps) turns your expensive science degree into an expensive framed diploma mill fashion statement. Great for low wages protecting high valued added projects. All you need is a US front company for compliance and political lobbying. The rest can be done by people fearful of been returned for cents on the $.
Government involvement in health care lets the private health sector use 'death panels' under the cover of the big evil federal gov while legally collecting new plan payments from everybody.
legalization of drugs is a "state rights" sheltered workshop for local growers/shops. They pay taxes and employ locals vs the usual bulk transports up from southern parts of the Americas that just brings in token federal law enforcement grants.
clean energy R&D - massive boondoggle for the politically connected site owners. State/federal sheltered workshop for local scientists selling the dream of 'exports'. Projects big coal long term.
Government funding of bullet trains - a fun way to grab land, put down new track, buy a new rail system (communications, repair), local jobs and a massive boondoggle in renting 'services' from the politically connected suppliers (locals and imports)
Higher income tax rates for the wealthiest taxpayers - the US has many tax professionals that can protect generations of wealth to the point of been a charity that enjoys tax payer grants. This has never been an issue for the wealthiest taxpayers and is a trick question.
The remarkable legal part was that the Aaron Swartz "documents" where sealed under a protective order.
DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case:
Recall http://yro-beta.slashdot.org/s...
Re AC and "Most countries track the location of your cell phone (mandated by law), and then shares the information gathered with intelligence agencies."
Thats the problem. At some hardware and software level all your text entry is fair game to the telco that allows you to connect to their gov granted network.
You can run all the apps you want but your still walking around with a beacon that has a mic and other neat features to offer any interested city/state/federal/mil/.com
ASIO notices you and wants to know more about you. A cleared official or bureaucrat authorizes a "sneak and peek" like digital finding, tasking your home computer for a look.
The new legal idea is to place ASIO spyware into your Windows, Apple (other OS?) computer and then see if you need more attention without complex extra court requests.
Logs and malware product is then reviewed. The malware would be made to look and feel like any other infected bot computer in Australia - another suburban adsl 2+ "home" computer running malware on your computer. If the ip is ever traced back by the private internet security sector they will find an empty/under renovation/to be rented house with a computer 'networked' on the floor with simple 24/7 database.
Most posts about news on Slashdot are 'in' the news already over a few.com sites.
Slashdot brings a lot of news to many people globally.
Thanks to Snowden people can consider "quantum insert": http://news.slashdot.org/story...
If the govs are tracking people just for reading or commenting on news its kind of strange given a 24/7 news cycle.
A few details did slip out over the years via the "Connecticut Four" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and others who went to open courts. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05... http://www.americanlibrariesma...
National Security Letters (January 10, 2011) https://www.aclu.org/national-...
"...web sites a person visits, a list of e-mail addresses with which a person has corresponded, or even unmask the identity of a person who has posted anonymous speech on a political website."
" provision also allows the FBI to forbid or "gag" anyone who receives an NSL from telling anyone about the record demand. "
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge (May 7, 2008) https://www.eff.org/press/arch...
"a digital library recognized by the state of California -- and its attorneys in November of 2007. The letter asked for personal information about one of the Archive's users, including the individual's name, address, and any electronic communication transactional records pertaining to the user."
FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit (May 8, 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The German weak networks selected by trusted German gov crypto staff allow the USA/UK and friends in but keep other nations out:)
The German gov staff hope this will allow Germany to be trusted by the US and UK and get more export grade US mil equipment.
I dont think West Germany was given much option. With the quality and quantity of KGB, GRU, East German and other spies in play all aspects of West German telco networks would have been vital to the NSA and GCHQ.
Later the tame German staff who grew up with/advanced into the post 1960's telco upgrades just kept selecting staff that where happy to serve under/with the GCHQ and NSA.
German domestic and foreign intelligence just kept telling every elected gov that its was very secret and very vital.
A few decades later Germany still wonders why its international prowess is so low, trade is difficult and trade deals seems to fail.
Why its science is last to market or other vital sectors of its economy seem so slow.
Kind of easy when 5+ other nations are noting everything of importance Germany communicates in real time and acting while Germany is still discussing.
" Meanwhile we spend hundreds of billions on fancy pants fighter planes, warship designs that we build only one or two of at enormous expense before scrapping "
Something has to be able to get past layers of Tor, Panstsirs, Buk, S-300, Mig's, Foxhound's... will Russia really launch a few billion $ worth of upgraded cold war rockets and never catch the super stealthy f22?
Russia knows the f22 will always get past its layers of rocket networks.
Until then join and enjoy the sales to the US gov:)
Recall how well the wig was used
"The name is Blond... James Blond: Russia set to expel US 'spy' caught wearing a shaggy wig as he offered millions to agent to switch sides" (15 May 2013) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"Red-handed? Russia ‘catches CIA spy on Moscow recruitment mission’" (14 May 2013) http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Giving your spies even more complex equipment might just make for even more photogenic press reports.
Keep the spying face to face with simple items any local tourist, student or academic might have.
The more complex the spy kit the more it will be used, then detected and shared with the worlds press.
Anybody of real importance will not let any foreigner near them.
Anybody else will let any foreigner or tourist near them.
The only win in this is the sale of the product, support and maintenance contracts to the US gov.
Launder ex mil staff as aid workers is always a good front. Use faith based groups to hide ex mil staff. Multinational telco workers contracting for a private sector upgrade are good cover too.
The world has already had near constant regional conflicts via Covert United States foreign regime change actions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most nations may not want to be at some "plate" allowed crumbs by a 'superpower' if they elect a good party or live under a tame dictator.
The move to white boxes and to a countries own domestic code mix has begun.
The educational move away from junk US encryption and their tame academics standards has begun.
The gov move away from junk US encryption and their tame standards setting bureaucrats has begun.
The divestment from named US brands has begun - brands that might be connected to vast US pension funds that factored in ongoing vast international sales.
A slight change in the way some US software brands are seen by the consumers is already be whispered about.
What can the US gov or its brands do? The encryption is shared with 5+ other nations, their staff, ex staff, former staff have insights into the complex expensive US products.
Nations are slowly understanding what they have been using for years and what junk telco standards and weak encryption means to their own national interests.
The magic of a soothing word about the wonders of the US private sector, a deep generational respect for fully enforced US legal standards by a US political leader or local US embassy staff just sounds like a sales pitch.
US products have to be considered in any and all bidding - your nation signed a treaty is not a good place to be demanding regional sales from.
Our spies work well together, US brands given them global reach is not a good place to be demanding regional sales from.
Expect to see new calls for domestic investment, jobs for skilled loyal local staff and their firms first and only.
The real question is what any nations own domestic security services will do to in the face of the massive ongoing sale of their nations digital communications to 5+ other nations. Will a next generation of political leaders be so foolish as to give away their nations entire banking sector, trade negotiations, tech jobs, gov funded scientific output, gov databases and private sector data for free to 5+ other nations via tame foreign telcos products?
The good news is lawyers and law reformers now know the type of devices now used in parallel construction and how it is hidden/sealed/never mentioned per city/state.
The good news is lawyers and law reformers can ask/search cities and states for the payment for the devices or related equipment (antennas to increase range) that was not hidden/removed in time.
The good news is lawyers and law reformers can ask/search cities and states for advice offered by local LEO relating to sale/use of the devices or equipment to other cities/states.
That FOIA paper trail still exists in some towns, cities, courts relating to payment and local LEO understanding of the devices. You wont find much in any open court but some of the early now sealed case work might be telling if it can be found by legal teams/press skilled in such searches:)
This is not the UK in the distant past where related telco equipment had a very closed life (make, ship, use, removal was all gov realted). In the US you have a sale pitch and the related paperwork.
What are the options for a uninstall/trigger wipe?
Could a unique telco call carry the needed 'off' layer without "ringing"/user been notified?
Could wifi be turned on and a site visit in range send the "off" instruction from a street, shop, cafe?
Could net connection be used to send the "off" instruction?
Could malware in a users computer be waiting to issue that command next time connected?
Consumer devices have many options to connect:)
Re "don't jailbreak, don't get pwned." would be great if the jailbreak aspect was complex and had a few GUI steps that a user would see or have to be fooled into doing.
Another computer or person can "jailbreak" a device of interest in a way that the person been watched would not be aware of.
ie you get the users password and its a background like task that is never noticed. ie infect the computer, then you get details on the connected devices, then you can jailbreak. No user interaction needed:)
Slashdot Mirror
Top down the political class knows where its re election cash is flowing from and why.
You are seeking capitalism, entrepreneurship and a vibrant local telco sector.
Think about your local laws and community broadband.
http://arstechnica.com/busines...
Structural separation will ensure any local, state or national provider can offer its network down to homes without been shut out by any one regional monopoly.
You can enjoy your own phone. Set your own plan on a long list of approved hardware devices under their own in store branding.
New fashion colors every few months and all the benefits of a dynamic and very competitive consumer hardware market.
Enjoy the freedom to select from several closed source or fully open source product lines.
If you like you can even write free or for profit programs for the 32,000,000 customers via dynamic and free to join online marketplace or shop.
Welcome to your new telco system. One Contract, One Network, Universal Surveillance.
New owners: Competition is a sin.
NSA: One company would be more easy to deal with.
Federal law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with.
State law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with. Can we keep the networks on copper or coaxial cable in use for a few more decades?
City law enforcement: One company would be more easy to deal with. Optical networks are too expensive to tap. Offer more very low cost mobile plans.
Customers: Free mobile with my new internet plan on a 24 month contract.
The freedom of choice to be online sitting at home or on the move. Every 24 months I get a new free mobile phone.... freedom of choice from a huge selection of approved mobile phones.
Options: :)
MI6 warned the UK gov and was privately able to secure the power sector over a very long time.
GCHQ was working with the power sector over a very time.
The UK power sector is air gapped with unionized staff at each site unreachable by most modern internet code floating around.
All the other nations listed rebuilt their power sectors with a series of open internet connections. Very few top staff member with laptops could complete their tasks off site via the internet at a lower cost.
The only aspect of the UK grid open to networking is billing and secretarial support due to the age or expert design of the per site bespoke systems.
GCHQ has a UK wide super firewall they did not tell anyone about
Any group can be used to fake an ip and work on shifts or use friendly 'locals' to provide the press spin of the expected evil/cover country of origin.
Lots of software gets tested, lost, sold, re built and re tested in the wild by many different groups.
A nation state would have real staff, real experts and real connections to the power sector to test all they like without any code needing a live test.
Why show your hand even if you need to test live? Why risk your skilled tight code floating around for many other govs and skilled AV firms to study?
Skilled nations have vast crews working on other problems - unique, special, air gapped sites that can only be accessed by mil/gov or contractors. Thats the focus of their experts, their spies, their dual citizens, people of the same faith long term.
Motive for this is just the usual new security product to sell/rent, domestic laws to change, political grandstanding.
The win is a boondoggle, security sector lobbying and press fun for the bellicose and militaristic.
Real nations have much more interesting long term projects to task on much more interesting sectors ie open networks are open to everybody on the 'net'.
Any country can fake an entry point in another country with timezones to match or use their own diaspora to fake a networking origin.
Who is using code, paying for code, where it is uploaded or controlled from can be well covered from a list of nations.
So many groups in gov, mil, the private cyber security contracting sector sector have really been pushing stories like this for the past decades.
The tame press, AC's, academics and sock puppets then drum up the need for expensive products and new cyber laws to cover simple network cost cutting.
Having real staff watch over a site is now been replaced with cheap networking. That network is the free 'internet' and a few skilled staff can watch over many sites 24/7. ... ie an onsite design issue.
Staff numbers could be cut, fewer real experts would be needed.
The networks are not hardened or unique to a plant or site. Too much consumer grade software and networking open to the outside world was used.
This is not news, was not unexpected and is an ongoing issue due to cost cuts and staffing
You would think this could be fixed at an OS or application level vs the only fix been reaching out to fix the 'internet'?
Down the "AC" list:
illegal immigration: Provides union free workers that nobody will care for, no health and work place safety inspections. Limb loss or a toxic work environment is not an issue. Great for low wages protecting high valued added prices on an industrial scale where robots just are not ready yet.
Some profits flow back to local and federal politicians as donations. A thank you to keep the boarders wide open.
Young fit dreamers get free citizenship in the military for the next round of distant wars and occupations vs the unfit, criminal or not so smart clogging up local recruitment lists.
Due to citizenship status they might not be listed as real US mil deaths in combat - great for press spin after the Vietnam draft numbers.
legal immigration (H1B caps) turns your expensive science degree into an expensive framed diploma mill fashion statement. Great for low wages protecting high valued added projects. All you need is a US front company for compliance and political lobbying. The rest can be done by people fearful of been returned for cents on the $.
Government involvement in health care lets the private health sector use 'death panels' under the cover of the big evil federal gov while legally collecting new plan payments from everybody.
legalization of drugs is a "state rights" sheltered workshop for local growers/shops. They pay taxes and employ locals vs the usual bulk transports up from southern parts of the Americas that just brings in token federal law enforcement grants.
clean energy R&D - massive boondoggle for the politically connected site owners. State/federal sheltered workshop for local scientists selling the dream of 'exports'. Projects big coal long term.
Government funding of bullet trains - a fun way to grab land, put down new track, buy a new rail system (communications, repair), local jobs and a massive boondoggle in renting 'services' from the politically connected suppliers (locals and imports)
Higher income tax rates for the wealthiest taxpayers - the US has many tax professionals that can protect generations of wealth to the point of been a charity that enjoys tax payer grants. This has never been an issue for the wealthiest taxpayers and is a trick question.
The remarkable legal part was that the Aaron Swartz "documents" where sealed under a protective order.
DOJ, MIT, JSTOR Seek Anonymity In Swartz Case:
Recall http://yro-beta.slashdot.org/s...
Re AC and "Most countries track the location of your cell phone (mandated by law), and then shares the information gathered with intelligence agencies."
Thats the problem. At some hardware and software level all your text entry is fair game to the telco that allows you to connect to their gov granted network.
You can run all the apps you want but your still walking around with a beacon that has a mic and other neat features to offer any interested city/state/federal/mil/.com
Re Asio lyrics by Redgum :)
a U.N. flag, now he's trading in securities, Do it for the practice, do it for the fun, Everything is legal, anything goes
ASIO notices you and wants to know more about you. A cleared official or bureaucrat authorizes a "sneak and peek" like digital finding, tasking your home computer for a look.
The new legal idea is to place ASIO spyware into your Windows, Apple (other OS?) computer and then see if you need more attention without complex extra court requests.
Logs and malware product is then reviewed. The malware would be made to look and feel like any other infected bot computer in Australia - another suburban adsl 2+ "home" computer running malware on your computer. If the ip is ever traced back by the private internet security sector they will find an empty/under renovation/to be rented house with a computer 'networked' on the floor with simple 24/7 database.
Most posts about news on Slashdot are 'in' the news already over a few .com sites.
Slashdot brings a lot of news to many people globally.
Thanks to Snowden people can consider "quantum insert":
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
If the govs are tracking people just for reading or commenting on news its kind of strange given a 24/7 news cycle.
A few details did slip out over the years via the "Connecticut Four" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and others who went to open courts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05...
http://www.americanlibrariesma...
National Security Letters (January 10, 2011)
https://www.aclu.org/national-...
"...web sites a person visits, a list of e-mail addresses with which a person has corresponded, or even unmask the identity of a person who has posted anonymous speech on a political website."
" provision also allows the FBI to forbid or "gag" anyone who receives an NSL from telling anyone about the record demand. "
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge (May 7, 2008)
https://www.eff.org/press/arch...
"a digital library recognized by the state of California -- and its attorneys in November of 2007. The letter asked for personal information about one of the Archive's users, including the individual's name, address, and any electronic communication transactional records pertaining to the user."
FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit (May 8, 2008)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The German weak networks selected by trusted German gov crypto staff allow the USA/UK and friends in but keep other nations out :)
The German gov staff hope this will allow Germany to be trusted by the US and UK and get more export grade US mil equipment.
I dont think West Germany was given much option. With the quality and quantity of KGB, GRU, East German and other spies in play all aspects of West German telco networks would have been vital to the NSA and GCHQ.
Later the tame German staff who grew up with/advanced into the post 1960's telco upgrades just kept selecting staff that where happy to serve under/with the GCHQ and NSA.
German domestic and foreign intelligence just kept telling every elected gov that its was very secret and very vital.
A few decades later Germany still wonders why its international prowess is so low, trade is difficult and trade deals seems to fail.
Why its science is last to market or other vital sectors of its economy seem so slow.
Kind of easy when 5+ other nations are noting everything of importance Germany communicates in real time and acting while Germany is still discussing.
You where talking of the past UN decades AC....
" Meanwhile we spend hundreds of billions on fancy pants fighter planes, warship designs that we build only one or two of at enormous expense before scrapping " :)
Something has to be able to get past layers of Tor, Panstsirs, Buk, S-300, Mig's, Foxhound's... will Russia really launch a few billion $ worth of upgraded cold war rockets and never catch the super stealthy f22?
Russia knows the f22 will always get past its layers of rocket networks.
Until then join and enjoy the sales to the US gov
Recall how well the wig was used
"The name is Blond... James Blond: Russia set to expel US 'spy' caught wearing a shaggy wig as he offered millions to agent to switch sides" (15 May 2013)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"Red-handed? Russia ‘catches CIA spy on Moscow recruitment mission’" (14 May 2013)
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Giving your spies even more complex equipment might just make for even more photogenic press reports.
Keep the spying face to face with simple items any local tourist, student or academic might have.
The more complex the spy kit the more it will be used, then detected and shared with the worlds press.
Anybody of real importance will not let any foreigner near them.
Anybody else will let any foreigner or tourist near them.
The only win in this is the sale of the product, support and maintenance contracts to the US gov.
Launder ex mil staff as aid workers is always a good front. Use faith based groups to hide ex mil staff. Multinational telco workers contracting for a private sector upgrade are good cover too.
The world has already had near constant regional conflicts via Covert United States foreign regime change actions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most nations may not want to be at some "plate" allowed crumbs by a 'superpower' if they elect a good party or live under a tame dictator.
The move to white boxes and to a countries own domestic code mix has begun.
The educational move away from junk US encryption and their tame academics standards has begun.
The gov move away from junk US encryption and their tame standards setting bureaucrats has begun.
The divestment from named US brands has begun - brands that might be connected to vast US pension funds that factored in ongoing vast international sales.
A slight change in the way some US software brands are seen by the consumers is already be whispered about.
What can the US gov or its brands do? The encryption is shared with 5+ other nations, their staff, ex staff, former staff have insights into the complex expensive US products.
Nations are slowly understanding what they have been using for years and what junk telco standards and weak encryption means to their own national interests.
The magic of a soothing word about the wonders of the US private sector, a deep generational respect for fully enforced US legal standards by a US political leader or local US embassy staff just sounds like a sales pitch.
US products have to be considered in any and all bidding - your nation signed a treaty is not a good place to be demanding regional sales from.
Our spies work well together, US brands given them global reach is not a good place to be demanding regional sales from.
Expect to see new calls for domestic investment, jobs for skilled loyal local staff and their firms first and only.
The real question is what any nations own domestic security services will do to in the face of the massive ongoing sale of their nations digital communications to 5+ other nations. Will a next generation of political leaders be so foolish as to give away their nations entire banking sector, trade negotiations, tech jobs, gov funded scientific output, gov databases and private sector data for free to 5+ other nations via tame foreign telcos products?
The good news is lawyers and law reformers now know the type of devices now used in parallel construction and how it is hidden/sealed/never mentioned per city/state. :)
The good news is lawyers and law reformers can ask/search cities and states for the payment for the devices or related equipment (antennas to increase range) that was not hidden/removed in time.
The good news is lawyers and law reformers can ask/search cities and states for advice offered by local LEO relating to sale/use of the devices or equipment to other cities/states.
That FOIA paper trail still exists in some towns, cities, courts relating to payment and local LEO understanding of the devices. You wont find much in any open court but some of the early now sealed case work might be telling if it can be found by legal teams/press skilled in such searches
This is not the UK in the distant past where related telco equipment had a very closed life (make, ship, use, removal was all gov realted). In the US you have a sale pitch and the related paperwork.
What are the options for a uninstall/trigger wipe? :)
Could a unique telco call carry the needed 'off' layer without "ringing"/user been notified?
Could wifi be turned on and a site visit in range send the "off" instruction from a street, shop, cafe?
Could net connection be used to send the "off" instruction?
Could malware in a users computer be waiting to issue that command next time connected?
Consumer devices have many options to connect
Re "don't jailbreak, don't get pwned." would be great if the jailbreak aspect was complex and had a few GUI steps that a user would see or have to be fooled into doing. :)
Another computer or person can "jailbreak" a device of interest in a way that the person been watched would not be aware of.
ie you get the users password and its a background like task that is never noticed. ie infect the computer, then you get details on the connected devices, then you can jailbreak. No user interaction needed