Kuhn: At Least Motorola Admits It

Posted Jul 19, 2010 9:59 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246)
In reply to: Kuhn: At Least Motorola Admits It by mpr22
Parent article: Kuhn: At Least Motorola Admits It

I agree.

It also seems extremely unlikely that they'd pick the most complicated and likely most expensive chip on the board (OMAP3) and blow e-fuses within it to implement such a scheme. That more or less would translate into needing to swap out the entire PCB that contains the OMAP.

It seems quite sufficient for the device to just check the flash signature and go to a recovery mode on signature failure, especially since TI builds that function into the ROM and CPU (M-Shield, linked above). It just uses e-fuse for key information.

So, while it's technically possible they could have a truly self-destructing phone, it seems extremely unlikely.

Kuhn: At Least Motorola Admits It

Posted Jul 19, 2010 11:43 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

*shrug* You're probably both right. Especially since the source is a dude on the internet. :)