美国加州立法机关之前已经让“自杀开关”成为法律,要求在加州司法管辖区销售的智能手机,必须配备远程擦除功能,来威慑日益猖獗的智能手机盗窃。一般来说,这些自杀方案大多是基于软件的。虽然其中一些方案,可能让智能手机完全没有用处(俗称“变砖”),但是,盗窃者可以在部分情况下重新刷新设备,并重新安装操作系统,让智能手机再次可用。此外,高级黑客甚至可以拆卸变砖智能手机当中的闪存芯片,从中恢复被擦除的数据。 California’s legislature has previously made “suicide switch” a law that requires smartphones sold in California jurisdictions that must be equipped with remote wipe capabilities to deter the thriving smartphone theft. In general, most of these suicide programs are software-based. While some of these options may make your smartphone completely useless (“Common Brick”), the thief can in some cases reflash the device and reinstall the operating system to make the smartphone available again. In addition, advanced hackers can even remove flash memory chips from brick-based smartphones to recover erased data.