Take that, eFuse... It looks like the encrypted bootloader may soon be history.

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It appears that there is a vulnerability in the Droid X that is going to make the cracking of the bootloader only a matter of time. Stephen Bird (aka Mr Birdman) has been tweeting rather cryptic messages regarding his progress over the past few days, and now he linked to this thread: http://androidforums.com/1605106-post38.html

It looks like custom roms/custom kernels are only a matter of time. :). Gotta love the Android hacking community!

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I believe the E-fuse is really a job interview test.
Who ever "cracks" E-fuse first get I heck of a position a Motorola.
 

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This is nice, now there's little question that we'll get Honecomb, Ice Cream (or whatever), etc. even after the phone is EOLed.
 

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We already had ability to load roms. We just couldnt mess with kernals. We just haven't had any cookers to bake us a good rom.
 

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A lot of ROM devs were probably holding out because of the lack of ability to customize the kernel. I believe this was the case with Cyanogen.

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I believe a lot of the dev's had stated before (in various places) that they refused to dev for the X b/c of Moto's policies.
 

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I believe a lot of the dev's had stated before (in various places) that they refused to dev for the X b/c of Moto's policies.

That almost seems counterintuitive to me; I would think that would make the dev's want to figure ways around Moto's 'lockdown' of the X even more. I imagine if (when) they can tinker with the kernel we will see more ROMs.
 

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IIRC, and I'm not saying I am, the rationale was that it was in protest of Moto's anti-dev community policies. 'Course, that doesn't mean that anyone who DID say that hasn't changed their minds. lol
 

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