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-1: I agree with you up to a certain point, but there's reasonable counter-measures and totally off the wall ones, of which this one is an example of. Encrypting the boot loader as was done in Milestone is a great approach, but actually bricking the phone? I'll go somewhere else.

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So you don't mind that they lock down the bootloader so you can't actually install anything else, but you do mind when they lock it just a little bit more to make sure you don't install anything else?

That really doesn't make any sense.

With the encrypted bootloader it's a a challenge to crack it, see if you're "worthy", etc. With eFuse, all bets are off, that's not fair

That is an odd argument; the purpose of either technological measure is to keep you out, and most users are just going to download somebody else's "worthy" crack anyway.

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