DroidX - a "cust friendly" approach to jailbreaking

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....has written a detailed piece saying that rooting (jailbreaking) the Droid X may be extremely difficult. Motorola has reportedly included an eFuse chip in the Droid. The chip is designed to verify that several pieces of the Droid X software including the device firmware, software kernel and bootloader version are intact before starting up the device. If the eFuse chip doesn't find the right information: BOOM! Enjoy your new 5.4-ounce paperweight, because you won't be able to do much else with it.



This doesn't appear to be an overblown rumor either, .... since Motorola has posted a statement about rooting the device on its developer forum. "Securing the software on our handsets, thereby preventing a non-Motorola ROM image from being loaded, has been our common practice for many years," Motorola said.



Since Android is an open source operating system and the source code is freely available, many hackers have taken to building their own ROMs and distributing them to users -- Cyanogen being the most famous one. Rooting Android devices has become a popular pastime for tech-minded Android users, but rooting may be more difficult with the Droid X thanks to Motorola's kill switch.



Source: PC World

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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    I wonder if Apple will take a similar approach in future iPhones. They have tried to put in measures to stop jailbreaking and refuse warranty repairs on jailbroken or unlocked devices. This sort of thing would kill the whole jailbreaking scene/Cydia/stolen apps etc once and for all.
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