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Distributed TiVo Code Cracking

Posted by michael on from the wait-for-the-video dept.

Twostep writes "With the newest version of the TiVo software (Version 3.2), TiVo has once again changed the secret password to enter "backdoor" mode, which lets advanced users enable hidden features. Unlike last time, people were not able to quickly find the new code, so a distributed computing project was started to find the backdoor codes. You can read about it Here, grab the Linux or Windows clients and pitch in some CPU time for a good cause."

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  1. Searching for aliens? Curing disease? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    TV! Now there's a cause I can get behind.

    1. Re:Searching for aliens? Curing disease? by de_rus · · Score: 1, Funny

      you should if you're heading for the backdoor

  2. From the forum... by Jeffv323 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yikes!
    Is there any way to contact /. and ask them NOT to run that post? I suspect that as soon as the post hits the front page, both tivocommunity.com and all of the pages associated with TivoCrack will be brought down by the load.

    Too late! Now go watch your servers burst into flames...

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  3. Re:Because you're entitled to use your own hardwar by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Funny

    God-damn independent people...doing whatever they want to with their own property. This must be stopped!

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  4. busines for IBM by abhikhurana · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I know why IBM wants CPU time to be a metered utility... all the TIVO consumers have to do is buy some CPU time on IBM supercomputers, and voila :-)
    I can now see why IBM's business will succeed.

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  5. Password cracked... over 30 characters long! by (H)elix1 · · Score: 5, Funny


    "!seineew era sreenigne VTetamitlU"

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  6. Re:Stupid question by Whammy666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not stealing... it's innovation.

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  7. Re:Idiots by ctucker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Disney: "You can have Micky Mouse, when you pry it from my cold dead fingers"

    Sounds like a win-win situation to me :)

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  8. Re:hmmm.... is this redundant? by BluBrick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, it is live. It's just that the link takes you back to last week. You'll have to wait until next week to get this week's content from timewarp.org

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