Anti-Theft Smart Phones

Stealing phones has been a major issue in the society since the debut of the phones in the late 1900s, and developing the technology to fight against these consequences have been developed until now. Samsung made a huge change in their safeguards recently adding the anti theft solutions to their latest smartphones, to decrease the rates and be able to attract more individuals to use their phone adding these features to ensure that a person is ensured with security. The main content will be on the Samsung Galaxy S 5, which will include this awesome software, claiming to enhance their security.  The feature of the program allows the owner to know because if there is an attempt to reset the phone the wireless signals will be able to reveal the position. Instead of proposing the use of the kill switch Samsung stuck to the use of the wireless industry in order to make their consumer's safe. The kill switch is also not a very good option because it might trigger in an accident risking the user's of the smartphone and taking away the companies trust if it did happen. The wireless association is also agreeing with Samsung's idea because due to the killer switch it may be very beneficial to hackers who could just disable your phone and anytime.

Major Concepts

• Samsung added two safeguard to their latest smart phone Samsung Galaxy S5, including the app "Find my Mobile", and "Reactivation Lock" in order to ensure high security.
• The features include the wireless pin point location if the thief attempts to reset the phone
• Due to this security update the U.S. law enforcement demand these smart phone manufactures to create kill switches to stop the problem.
• Due to many risk able solutions the kill switch is canceled due to the disadvantages that it could create harm to user if there was an error.   

Potential Strengths/Advantages

The strength of the article showed a wide use of deep research to find all the opposing details to this new technology while comparing it to the kill switch versus the wireless system installed in the new Samsung smart phones. Overall it gave an account of both the advantages and disadvantages from both sides of the technology and has a deep analysis about the main ideas and the potential numbers that affect the topic, which could be very interesting to read for many people.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

The limitations of this article includes the fact that it only contains a small little sentence about the main features of this security update, in which it was something I was willing to read after reading the title, but it turns out to be a discussion about the kill switch the wireless technology of the phone rather than the features of this new technology disappointing me. The author wrote mainly about the arguments behind it rather than the points that the title is giving making it a really huge disadvantage to the article.  

Discussion Questions

This issue about stealing smart phones, and normal mobile phones has been a really big issue and it has been bothering me for many times already. I lost my 2 of my phones since I've been able to use one and been responsible for one. This makes me really mad because back in the old days there was no way to get these phones back due to the lack of this technology. Now the smart phones industry is starting to develop again I think it is almost time for me to change my phone to a better smart phone that is able to ensure this security allowing me not to worry about having people stealing my phone again.

Collins, Terry. "Samsung Adding Anti-theft Solutions to Smartphones." Samsung Adding Anti-theft Solutions to Smartphones. N.p., 05 Apr. 2014. Web. 07 Apr. 2014. <http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2014/Samsung-announces-2-anti-theft-solutions-for-Galaxy-S-5-smartphones-to-help-prevent-theft/id-