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> Remote bricking all iOS devices in Russia would be an offensive escalation because it would directly harm Russian assets

It's still nonviolent.

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Not really, remotely disabling the mobile phones of ~every medical doctor, firefighter, and EMS in a country of a hundred and fifty million people with no warning would likely cause on the order of 10k deaths.

It would be more deaths in 24h than the entire Ukraine invasion so far.

You can pretend such would be nonviolent, but it's basically a terror attack on civillian medical infrastructure.

So right to repair right out of the window?

> right to repair right out of the window?

This...never existed in a military/geopolitical context? Does Ukraine get to sue Russia for materiel it's blowing up?

I don't see the connection, but I know of a bunch of people who'd be pretty mad about how a corporation can remotely cut off an entire country's digital access.

> know of a bunch of people who'd be pretty mad about how a corporation can remotely cut off an entire country's digital access

Of course. Same with SWIFT cut-off.

Doing it in a way that is not arbitrary would be key. (I don't know how one would do that. There is no precedent for that type of action, and it is not being seriously considered by senior policymakers.)

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