High Definition TiVo Bash Software Hack Claimed 154
crazyray writes "Fresh on the heels of Sunday's Washington Post's article about TiVo and the broadcast flag, a group calling themselves the 'HD TeAm' is claiming to have discovered a software-only exploit to enable bash on the new $1000 High Definition DirecTiVo.
Prior to this announcement, it was thought that this was only possible by desoldering and reflashing the PROM.
Perhaps most interestingly, 'HD TeAm' is offering to release the code to the world if enough donations are given to the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
Re:Fishy! (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, just freaking great (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:How about a hack for the Series 2? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?
Re:I have a question....... (Score:3, Interesting)
You'd be just as wise to put your money down on a "pre-release" copy of Duke Nuke'em Forever without doing more homework.
Re:Fishy! (Score:2, Interesting)
not if it means getting service for FREE and TiVo losing money. hacks like this can allow this alteration, and it's just not good for the company and it's investors
NO! This is especially true in this case. Corporate America needs to be taught that "we will make money as long as we contol the use of our product after we sell it" is a bogus business plan.
Capatalism demands that any company that tries this be run out of business. Darwin tells us that any investor that supports a company with such a business plan will have their money taken away (and this is a good thing)
I'm sick and tired of the "companies and investors DESERVE to make mony no matter how lame their business plans are" crowd. FSCK that. If a company can't figure out how to make money w/o inventing new limitations on what consumers can do with their product then it is VITALLY IMPORTANT that that company be allowed to fail. It may hurt in the short term, but we are all better for it in the long term.
Re:The hack I'd like to see (Score:1, Interesting)
Definition of blackmail (Score:5, Interesting)
Blackmail involves the withholding of information in return for a fee. If providing information in return for a fee is blackmail, then we'll have to jail all the programmers and scientists.
I can hear it now... (Score:3, Interesting)
(Tell-Sell mode)
The latest TiVo hack... Soon coming to a Freenet [freenetproject.org] or MUTE [sourceforge.net] node near you... It's amazing!
(/Tell-Sell mode)
A little later, it'll be all over the general file-sharing networks, without ever having left a trace to its origin. At that stage, the cat is irrevocably out of the bag.
The point you raise is interesting: it doesn't matter that anonymous networks like Freenet or MUTE are not currently used by a lot of users; they _are_ used by ~1000-~10000 users. When more than a view of those start sharing it at high-usage filesharing networks, the cat is out of the bag. I can indeed imagine really high-profile hacks (say: like the utopical patch that'll break DRMS and/of TCPA in a few years, or so ;) to be "released" in either the two-stage way I just described, or by using virusses (as a last resort).
Interesting...
Re:Away to Jail with Ye (Score:2, Interesting)
Nope, it is not. Godwin's Law applies. Second time in one thread. Remember to logout, loser.
Until we (US) start claiming racial superiority and burning racially inferior peoples in furnaces, all the talk of our alleged "Fascism" is complete nonsense.