There’s been a lot of gibberish going around the interwebs in a past 24 hours about the Droid X’s exceptionally well-locked bootloader — the incident which is starting to make using law ROMs extremely some-more difficult (bordering on impossible) compared to your normal HTC. Specifically, a culprit is said to be a technology well known as eFuse — grown by IBM multiform years ago — which allows circuits to be physically altered during the silicon turn on direct. Thing is, the term “eFuse” has taken on an unrelated meaning this week, with My Droid World claiming that some chip inside a Droid X is ordered to “blow a fuse” if it’s incompetent to determine a stock bootloader, which permanently bricks the phone. It amounts to the unequivocally, really tough slap upon a wrist for anyone trying to hack, say, Sense or stock Froyo onto it.

Considering IBM’s historically non-nefarious usage of the term “eFuse,” we suspected something was astray here, so we reached out to Motorola for an explanation. Read on to see what we got back.

“Motorola’s primary focus is the security of the end users as well as insurance of their data, whilst additionally assembly carrier, partner and authorised requirements. The Droid X as well as a majority of Android consumer devices upon a market currently have the cumulative bootloader. In reference privately to eFuse, a technology is not loaded with the role of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user which the device usually runs on updated and tested versions of program. If the device attempts to foot with unapproved program, it will go into recovery mode, as well as can re-boot once approved software is re-installed. Checking for the current program configuration is the usual use within the industry to strengthen a user opposite intensity antagonistic software threats. Motorola has been the prolonged time disciple of open platforms and provides the series of resources to developers to foster a ecosystem together with tools and access to devices via MOTODEV at http://developer.motorola.com.”So in alternative words, approbation, eFuse will shut down a phone with an unapproved bootloader — but it won’t brick the phone, it only needs “approved software” to be forsaken behind on there. Knowing a wealth of bent in the Android development community, we’re still really carefree this unsteadiness is going to get circumvented either approach, but at least you can breathe a small simpler meaningful that Moto isn’t out to destroy your multi-hundred-dollar investment.