jailbreaking the Netgear NTV300 set top box http://www.devttys0.com/2012/10/jailbreaking-the-neotv/
This article provides a pretty good illustration of the technique where you extract code from a firmware image, disassemble it, and examine it to find vulnerabilities that can be used to jail break a closed appliance. The hak5 people demonstrate how to employ the above jailbreak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLW5y1tjAOzI3UZhSSa9RsYa4onxSfHJ1p&feature=player_embedded&v=yRUE59i4WJo#! I'm not sure why one would bother hacking a device like this, given that there are dozens of similarly speced and priced appliances on the market that don't need to be broken in order to load your own OS or customize. Maybe I'm missing something and this hardware is special? A "Mediatek ARM SoC, a 128MB NAND flash chip and 256MB of RAM" doesn't sound special. Sure, hacking can be fun for its own sake, but when you have a choice to buy an open alternative, you should vote with your wallet. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
