Droid X Rumor Debunked

On the launch of the Motorola Droid X, rumors surfaced that a chip known as ‘eFuse’ would brick the phone after any attempt to run custom ROMs. Motorola has stated this will not happen, but it does go into "Recovery Mode" when booted with unauthorized software. Reinstalling the Motorola software will restore it to normal. So the phone will not become unusable, but it is quite possibly unhackable.

The problem is not that the Droid X becomes a brick when hacked, but that it cannot be hacked. While the lack of a phone-killing security feature means hackers are at a greater liberty to tinker, they won’t get anywhere. Motorola Milestone, the original Droid’s overseas sibling, has the same digitally-signed bootloader, and its security measures haven’t been broken yet

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