content: Read the title and had some serious reservations about this being accurate. The term bricking is derived from the device effectively becoming a brick. The device is no longer able to be booted, no amount of 1337 hax can get the hardware to respond as it should. In a PC replacing the Motherboard is usually all you can do, though some may have removable BIOS chips. With other devices it's probably cheaper to just replace the whole thing, I don't know what an iPhone mainboard would be worth but bricking an iPhone was a very real concern in the early days of jail-breaking.  It usually happens in firmware updates but with the advent of dual BIOS it's pretty much eliminated in modern hardware. This title is entirely click bait.