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On 4/25/24 21:28, micky wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:53 -0400, bad?sector
> <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/25/24 05:29, Nick Cine wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:47:17 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>
>>>>> [*] or any other action such as lifting it up, or touching the screen,
>>>>> or poking the fingerprint reader.
>>>>
>>>> The lifting it up thing is interesting. I wonder if that's done with an
>>>> accelerometer? If so, it would be checking that too.
>>>
>>> A few more comments, but I don't know much about this topic.
>>>
>>> 1. Even if a phone is "off", when you plug in a charger, "something
>>>      happens", so is it really off? I don't know, but how does it charge?
>>>
>>> 2. The government has, in the past, secretly modified gangster's phones
>>>      such that they looked to be off, but were secretly still transmitting.
>>>
>>> 3. The iPhone, I believe, is never off, which, I'm told, is how the FindMy
>>>      sensing works for stolen phones.
>>>
>>> How does any of that work? I don't know.
>>
>> For one thing the battery should be removable with one hand,
>> blindfolded, in 3 seconds or less.
> 
> Wyatt Earp could do that but I can't.

Regulations require it for oxygen masks, if enough people demand it the 
same lawmakers can just as easily require it for cell phones as well.