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ReplayTV's Remote Remote

Posted by emmett on from the set-it-and-forget-it dept.

plasmar writes: "ReplayTV has announced a new service due to roll out this Fall that lets you control your ReplayTV unit from a Web browser anywhere in the world. Full story available here." Just what I need, someone reprogramming my settings. I come in from dinner, and all of a sudden I'm watching 30 hours of Ron Popeil's Showtime Rotisserie Grill.

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  1. Wouldn't this be easily abused? by vertical-limit · · Score: 5
    Now, I don't own a ReplayTV, but a service like this seems really easy to abuse. We all know that crackers like to mess with anything they can get their hands on, and it doesn't seem it would it like be very difficult to crack this system. Imagine the havok that the script kiddies would wreck: people tape the wrong shows (hint: porn), people don't get any shows at all or get them all muted, people's TV keep incoherently flipping from channel and channel, etc.

    Seriously, why would you want to control your TV from a web browser in the first place? Are some people so lazy that they can't even budge from their computer to adjust the volume? This all just seems like an invitation for script kiddies to mess with peoples' TVs. If I was a ReplayTV user, I'd be pissed.

    Still, I can see how this would have some advantages, so hopefully ReplayTV will implement a secure-enough system (hint: security through obscurity never works!) that the lamer members of our population won't be able to ruin yet another new thing.