A few months ago, you may have noticed the news about a new law in California that mandates cell phone manufacturers to install a Kill Switch in their cell phones. This "switch" should allow owners to deactivate the mobile phone remotely in case of theft. Some would wonder why they had to legislate this when Android it has a built-in program that can lock, find the location or erase the mobile phone remotely. But the answer is simple. The one who steals mobile phones definitely knows what he's getting into. And so he knows for sure that when he wipes the entire stolen mobile phone, i.e. puts it in the factory state (factory reset), he will completely cancel this remote control function for the original owner.
And a lot of people really didn't like this. That's why Google implements do Androidwith 5.0, additional anti-theft protection that complies with the Kill Switch Act. Specifically, it is supposed to be about protection against restoring factory settings. This new protection will work on the principle that the user defines a password in advance to access the Factory reset. This ultimately means that anyone who wants to root the entire phone will need a password to do so. And since it is pointless to put this new feature only on mobiles sold in California, it is clear that the new protection will come to every device with Androidom 5.0 Lollipop.
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