He's mentioned more than once that this software
BRICKS the device. When
something is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like the stone
kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on.
In the last message I added (render it unoperable) for the ones who
don't know the slang :)
It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down
the curtain to the Choir
Invisible. IT'S BRICKED.
Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D