Quote:
Originally Posted by stio
As for it being a tinfoil attitude, maybe some of us just like to think that when we buy something it belongs to us and we don't have to allow the original vendor to "keep tabs on us" while we use it. For a slightly more practical justification, I refer you to the celebrated recent case where Amazon remotely wiped a woman's Kindle, without justification or explanation:
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/...by-amazon-drm/
Sometimes a wee bit of tinfoil head-covering is a good thing!  |
Oh the horror! Why don't you just turn wifi off? You got yourself all this trouble for a month; a simple google search would have pointed out that you do not need to provide payment details to register, and that not doing so would severely affect your battery life. The fact that you have to go through hoops to skip registration should have given you some hint that you were running the device in an unsupported mode.
And if I recall correctly, her account was re-instated. But that's besides the point.