Few comments after reading Wiki

Ian Stirling openmoko at mauve.plus.com
Wed May 16 22:15:20 CEST 2007


Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
> Ian Stirling wrote:
> 
>>
>> This is _not_ DRM that stops the owner of the phone doing stuff.
>>
>> It's DRM that stops users of the phone that may or may not be 
>> authorised users from doing stuff.
>>
>> Think of it as a BIOS password on steroids.
> 
> DRM never worked, and never will. it's a fact of life, get over it.
>

It's not DRM. It's a BIOS password, which doesn't let you flash it 
without the password.

Without it, any employee/pervert that wants to drop a logger on your 
childs phone can do whatever they want to any Neo phone with a minute or 
so alone with it.

The key can as easily be supplied in a tamper-proof card with the phone, 
that has to be returned unopened to obtain an unbricking, otherwise you 
pay a small fee.




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