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High Definition TiVo Bash Software Hack Claimed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shell-shocked dept.

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."

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  1. Re:bash? by selfabuse · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is bash.

  2. Re:Is this the opposite of digital terrorism?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were threatening to release the software hack unless MS were to allow a signed version of Linux to be released on the XBox. Of course MS didn't, and the hack (which allowed the user to load an unsigned linux loader without a hardware mod) was released.

    Later that hack was modified by other people to run *any* unsigned executable on the XBox. It was this very possibility that the original hacker wanted MS to avoid by allowing a signed Linux loader.

  3. ITS NOT BLACKMAIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are asking for donations (to a non-profit organization!) and in return they will release a hack that THEY CREATED into the public domain.

    How is offering to release something that you created in exchange for donations, blackmail?

    If it is, then I guess every business that sells goods or services is guilty of blackmail too *roll eyes*