[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[briarpatch.jim at gmail.com (Jim Philips)]

  On 07/15/2010 12:18 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/1317205/Droid-X-Self-Destructs-If-You-Try-To-Mod
>
> So the Motorola Droid I bought doesn't really belong to me. Somewhere 
> I missed the "and Motorola reserves the right to destroy your device 
> on a whim" clause in the paperwork when I bought the it.
>
> <tinfoil hat>since verizon can push any update to the phone, it is 
> possible to brick this thing remotely for "Terms of Service" 
> violations as well. The "Internet kill switch" has been pushed out to 
> the users. What does the iphone, blackberry and the htc series of 
> stuff have?</tinfoil hat>
>
>

This article in Boy Genius Report is damping down some of the initial 
excitement over this:

http://bit.ly/9JKmZ7

Cyanogen is also a little bit skeptical that this will prevent users 
from modding their phones.