Story about hacking Nook Color shows understood risks are acceptable for exploring...

[TheCotMan]

Nook Color Froyo "Hack" replies on disabling safety feature for battery

An unmodified Nook Color will shut down if it believes that the battery is getting too hot. If you install Froyo, the Nook recognizes it, but it'll shut down immediately. To get around this, Jesse disabled Android’s batteryservice, the software component that monitors the Nook Color's battery temperature. This means that the Nook Color's battery could overheat (thus damaging the unit), or worse--explode--as a result as this mod.

Nice. Disable a safety feature to bypass security measures used to decrease risk of damage to hardware. Understanding the risks, but deciding that putting the hardware at risk to explore is worth it? Hacking is still alive today. :-)