Kill Pill... now it's "a feature"

Here we go again...

LM Ericsson AB, the Swedish company that makes many of the modems that go into laptops, announced Tuesday that its new modem will deal with this issue by including "A FEATURE" that's virtually a wireless repo man.

If the carrier has the stomach to do so, it can send a signal that completely disables the computer, making it impossible to turn on.

“We call it a ‘kill pill',” said Mats Norin, Ericsson's vice-president of mobile broadband modules.

The module will work on AT&T Inc.'s U.S. third-generation network, and on many other 3G networks overseas.

Didn't Microsoft get their ass in a crack some years ago... for simply talking about this sort of thing?

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