So Being involved in xbox 360 community I was apart of the group of hackers who broke one of Microsoft's highly secured signatures, and continued to stay up with them. So now that I see Motorola/Verizon want to limit root access to the droid it brings me back to day everyone panic about the 360.
So useing the skills that I have picked up from that experience I would like to apply them to the Droid X problem.
When a company encrypts a rom its denying access to you unless you have the correct key. the xbox 360 had no cracks in this encryption so we had to work with what we had at the time. the only way we could gain access was to use the extensions that the rom would allow us to use. for the xbox 360 it was .xex. we would take our software and mimic it with the .xex extension so when the device read it, it would allow it.
so the droid extension is .nbh if i'm not mistaking (I dont have my droid x yet) what we could do is a make a similar firmware to attach to the rom and make our favorite droid hacks look like friendly software that anyone could just download.
A new firmware would not be that difficult to mimic it would be the flashing it to the rom that makes me scratch my head.
I've convinced myself that simply connecting my droid x phone to my pc and gaining access to the encryption "gate" so to say just might be enough to flash it with. the other option is taking the phone apart (which to my understanding is not too difficult, just requires a t-5 screwdriver) and physically flashing it.
well its worth a try anyway, i will only have 10 day to play with this before I go to the Naval Academy Prep School, (no electronics for 3 weeks) so maybe this can be a starting block for some of you too
So useing the skills that I have picked up from that experience I would like to apply them to the Droid X problem.
When a company encrypts a rom its denying access to you unless you have the correct key. the xbox 360 had no cracks in this encryption so we had to work with what we had at the time. the only way we could gain access was to use the extensions that the rom would allow us to use. for the xbox 360 it was .xex. we would take our software and mimic it with the .xex extension so when the device read it, it would allow it.
so the droid extension is .nbh if i'm not mistaking (I dont have my droid x yet) what we could do is a make a similar firmware to attach to the rom and make our favorite droid hacks look like friendly software that anyone could just download.
A new firmware would not be that difficult to mimic it would be the flashing it to the rom that makes me scratch my head.
I've convinced myself that simply connecting my droid x phone to my pc and gaining access to the encryption "gate" so to say just might be enough to flash it with. the other option is taking the phone apart (which to my understanding is not too difficult, just requires a t-5 screwdriver) and physically flashing it.
well its worth a try anyway, i will only have 10 day to play with this before I go to the Naval Academy Prep School, (no electronics for 3 weeks) so maybe this can be a starting block for some of you too