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Motorola Says eFuse Doesn't Permanently Brick Phones
radicalpi writes "Motorola has responded to claims that eFuse is designed to brick your device if you attempt to mod it or install unauthorized bootloaders. Yes, the device will still not operate with unauthorized software, but it will only go into recovery mode until you reinstall the authorized software. According to Motorola: 'If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed.'"
but I will decide what software is "authorized" to run on my phone!
That would depend on what your software is intended to do. The cell phone service - the cell phone network - is not your private playground.
There is a very big difference between laws for general public safety, such as "don't go out and shoot a ton of people" and organization of public resources (rf bandwidth management, it would certainly suck if noone on your block could hear their favorite radio station because you had to make a phone call). Those are very different than a company deciding that they are going to have full control over your device and prevent you from using it at your leisure harmlessly. That would be like an anti-gay dildo company that made dildos, which upon vaginal use were fine, but if used in a but immediately exploded and killed the individual. You buy something, it should be all means be yours to use for anything you want within the law.
Also, I might note you are kinda like this moron from xkcd: http://xkcd.com/169/
My point was very clear, but you distract from it with criticisms which have no practical point and show a purposed misunderstanding of my post. And then trying to couple it with an insult? If you are going to act like a retarded 5 year old on crack, don't do it on slashdot.
Where is the mod rating for "scary"? Also,