> That's not guaranteed. For example, see Droid Milestone's locked bootloader and XBox 360 (recently broken with a cpu bug).
I was originally going to say, "Well, that's a different matter entirely."
It's not really, though. It's taking longer and longer for people to hack "secured" hardware.
The lesson of the PS3 still stands, though. If you let the hacker community install what they want, then they may not even bother to hack your hardware, unless you piss them off. The economics of hacking and security works like the economics of guerrilla warfare. You don't set up a highly visible and attractive high value target for an enemy that greatly outnumbers you. Doing that is just stupidity.
Guerrilla warfare is just as much about knowing what to cede as it is knowing what to attack.
I was originally going to say, "Well, that's a different matter entirely."
It's not really, though. It's taking longer and longer for people to hack "secured" hardware.
The lesson of the PS3 still stands, though. If you let the hacker community install what they want, then they may not even bother to hack your hardware, unless you piss them off. The economics of hacking and security works like the economics of guerrilla warfare. You don't set up a highly visible and attractive high value target for an enemy that greatly outnumbers you. Doing that is just stupidity.
Guerrilla warfare is just as much about knowing what to cede as it is knowing what to attack.