[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Greg Clifton]

Jim,

The article referenced the NEW Droid X, you have the original model. I just
bought one with bad esn on Ebay that I was planning to take over to Metro
PCS. Surely that will be "safe" and I hope your older one is too.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 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>
>
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> James P. Kinney III
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
>
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