NY Times - Apps Tracked the DC Rioters

[danielr]

@irvinewade

I bought the L5 to use it … and I bought the L5 with HKSs to use them.

using them your emphasis, not mine.

@irvinewade

@danielr

Surely any user planning to use the HKS when leaving the house doesn’t really want this phone though?

By definition this is not true - because I am that user.

I am using the HKS to turn off WiFi (and BT) when leaving the house. I am not using the HKS to turn off the modem (typically ever).

Then you aren’t the user you were describing buying a phone with hardware kill switches and planning to use them.

Sure turning off Wi-Fi increases privacy. and you’ve made a decision to trust that IMSI catchers aren’t in widespread deployment, so don’t need a radio kill switch… a good choice I might add! - and exactly my point. - there are very few people that will use ALL HKS *ALL the time, because there is a functional benefit to potentially giving away privacy.