Droid X eFuse Security Information

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Hey,

I have some experience with eFuses and I just wanted to offer some incite, as you know the whole bricking thing has been debunked and what not so no reason to worry.

What I did want to go over is what would happen if Motorola did choose to pop a eFuse. This type of security measure is not really meant to brick the device but to prevent downgrades in general.

Imagine a cave where TNT is placed by the opening, the eFuse purpose to collapse any possibility to downgrade the phone or boot loader. As in the Droid most people use the Motorola RDS tool to downgrade the phone so you have the available security holes needed. Blowing the eFuse would prevent this. Send out patch, then blow eFuse.

That being said they have not done anything like this with any of the current phones and would most likely avoid doing it to the Droid X. Even if they chose to do this it would be a big task to take on and would be risky.

Apple has not done it, nor Motorola. The only example I can think of when the xbox 360 was hacked and the team notified Microsoft about and they actually blew the eFuse to prevent and kernel downgrades and it worked.

Just thought I would share some information with the lot here at XDA

See ya