writeup coming up on rooting your samsung tv (running tizen) is coming.
everything about the methodology will be included (in 2 tiers of explanation: one technical, one intended as a way to enable as many people to do it themselves).
your room should be yours. companies who yearn for every extractable data vector of your life should be shamed.
on the bright side, now that we’re going to be freeing up their data centers from needing massive telemetry ingest capacity they can get back to making memory more affordable as an apology. :)
if you own a samsung TV, my pre-emptive advice to my demonbreak is DO NOT UPDATE YOUR TELEVISION.
disable auto-update via settings -> support -> software update -> right arrow -> auto update OFF
new non-spying OS coming up (see qt’d post)
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv.
i kept getting weirdly targeted ads.
i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic.
zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs!
discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
always on hot mic functionality btw.
PLUS: automatic content recognition, geo positioning, network mapping, a targeted ads service, 4 distinct drm services, user profile building and so much more juicy telemetry!
just you, God, a $3000 TV and samsung + their 400 partners!
more to come, screenshot below is of a file called security-policy.xml
all you need is vyvanse and a dgx spark cluster and you’ll be a millionaire in 2 months MAX if you’re not mentally stunted
just used open router to reverse engineer. output tokens are crazy expensive, and you’ll get randomly routed to some provider charging fees that tantamount to raype.
time to build my own at-home data center.
this is gonna be expensive.
fxck it, while the wow forever servers are down here is a full decompilation of their warden anticheat (Eidolon)
WoW: Forever Anti-Cheat ("Eidolon") reversed.
Newest beta build 1.60.1.70170
174 pages of all the RVAs and signatures of the checks + descriptions of what it does. :)
