content: and sold or leased in New York  If there's no special conditions for smartphones after purchase then an easy way to circumvent things would be for the manufacturer to put an optional, free, publicly endorsed app on their app store that installs a security update to remove the backdoor while stating on the app page the reason that the app has to exist. There also wouldn't be anything stopping people from jailbreaking their phones and installing something different unless they're having the phone leased to them. The law shouldn't pass in the first place, but we should be sure the circumvention is loud, angry, and simple to implement if it does.