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  • You cannot certainly disable that as that is carrier specific regardless of what version of Android is used. But having said that, there was a USSD exploit last year which enabled remote execution of ussd codes to factory reset devices (this was on Samsung) by clicking on a linky, the newer Android versions since JB have sanitized the process in mitigating that exploit and subsequently handled differently. It would have held true in Eclair/Froyo/GB and ICS.
    – t0mm13b
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 15:38