From the article: "Well-meaning proposals sometimes have a way of raising troubling questions. Case in point: A team of wireless researchers in Germany proposed a way to improve the communications abilities of first responders, the brave people who rush into disastrous situations to help save the victims.
But the proposal hinges on something many private citizens and privacy or
security advocates will likely find uncomfortable: creating an “emergency
switch” that lets government employees disable the security mechanisms in the
wireless routers people have set up in their own homes." Read more
