We've known that the iPhone has a "kill switch" for four years (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10010070-37.html). AFAIK it hasn't been confirmed that phone can actually be remotely disabled - and it won't be until and if Apple actually uses it, but given Apple's obsessive control of the device it's possible and even probable. To the best of my knowledge Apple has never explicitly denied that such a capability could exist.
So why the sudden alarm that a Chinese made device could have a similar "feature"?
Are you Russian?
You sound like a Russian.
Or at least someone on their virtual public diplomacy payroll.
We've known that the iPhone has a "kill switch" for four years (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10010070-37.html). AFAIK it hasn't been confirmed that phone can actually be remotely disabled - and it won't be until and if Apple actually uses it, but given Apple's obsessive control of the device it's possible and even probable. To the best of my knowledge Apple has never explicitly denied that such a capability could exist.
So why the sudden alarm that a Chinese made device could have a similar "feature"?