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• BakuDreamer commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
  What's a ' Judas switch ' ?...
• Bellinghman commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
  It's a switch that turns off (or on) the Judas functionality. Judas is the most famous betrayer. This switch is on the phone ... so it's turning off the ability of the phone to betray you. Or in other words, it's putting it into flight mode....
• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
  So, with current(ish) tech, it might disable GPS locating (and hence navigation) in hardware....
• Bellinghman commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
  And whatever else might be relevant, yes. Turning the phone fully off may be inconvenient, given the way they're pocket computers these days. (Well, mine's mostly a 64GB MP3 player - that's what it spends 8 hours a day doing)...
• paws4thot commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
  Short of removing the battery, there is no way of turning mine off completely in h/w. Of course, that said mine is basically a telephone, although it theoretically plays games and MP3s, takes photos and mounts a web browser. Theoretically because I've never used any of the capacities....