<story><title>RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs</title><url>https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>&amp;gt; Around June-July 2021 LG started rolling out updates which added some minor mitigations that broke our original exploit chain.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a damn shame companies feel incentivised to do this.&lt;p&gt;People hacking on their own TVs is quite literally a victimless crime (besides yourself, if you brick your one TV), because you knowingly void the warranty.&lt;p&gt;Mazdas have a great third-party firmware called Mazda AIO Tweaks[0] that fixes a whole host of bugs and allows you to customize the infotainment system. The best part is you can use it to enable Android Auto on older Mazdas (this was before AA was even released for Mazda!)&lt;p&gt;Mazda then proceeded to lock down the firmware so much you now need to take apart some consoles and attach a serial connection. Disgusting behaviour.&lt;p&gt;(vis-a-vis plugging in an SD card with the scripts you want to run.)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mazdatweaks.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mazdatweaks.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>These exploits should certainly be fixed, they&amp;#x27;re security holes which can let malware into the TV. The same exploit that lets us root our TV would also allow anyone else to root it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the ability to physically flash our own software into any hardware we buy should be a basic consumer right. There should be no need for exploits in the first place, it should be a built in feature.</text></comment>
<story><title>RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs</title><url>https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>&amp;gt; Around June-July 2021 LG started rolling out updates which added some minor mitigations that broke our original exploit chain.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a damn shame companies feel incentivised to do this.&lt;p&gt;People hacking on their own TVs is quite literally a victimless crime (besides yourself, if you brick your one TV), because you knowingly void the warranty.&lt;p&gt;Mazdas have a great third-party firmware called Mazda AIO Tweaks[0] that fixes a whole host of bugs and allows you to customize the infotainment system. The best part is you can use it to enable Android Auto on older Mazdas (this was before AA was even released for Mazda!)&lt;p&gt;Mazda then proceeded to lock down the firmware so much you now need to take apart some consoles and attach a serial connection. Disgusting behaviour.&lt;p&gt;(vis-a-vis plugging in an SD card with the scripts you want to run.)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mazdatweaks.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mazdatweaks.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gormo</author><text>&amp;gt; People hacking on their own TVs is quite literally a victimless crime (besides yourself, if you brick your one TV), because you knowingly void the warranty.&lt;p&gt;Nitpick: it&amp;#x27;s not a victimless crime, on account of not being a crime at all.</text></comment>