Something Awful: AppleTV ridiculously hackable

Discussion in 'Techforge' started by Order2Chaos, Mar 24, 2007.

  1. Order2Chaos

    Order2Chaos Ultimate... Immortal Administrator

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  2. Xerafin

    Xerafin Unmoderated & off-center

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    Yea, I was reading about the shared drive capability to where it would be insanely easy to stream content from any desktop or laptop... :soma:
  3. Powaqqatsi

    Powaqqatsi Haters gonna hate.

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    Good call by Apple to make it very easy to hack.
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    JUSTLEE The Ancient Starfighter

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    I don't understand why is it a good thing?
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    Powaqqatsi Haters gonna hate.

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    Because then users can easily use it for streaming other content to their TVs, rather than just using it thru apples programs.
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    Hacking in the good sense of the word, not the bad. Hack like McGuyver or Steve Wozniak, not like electronic theives.