Apple fights back against Apple TV hacks?
March 29, 2007
This is most likely wrong but just ins case… here is the story from engadget:
In an interesting but unlikely turn of events, some Apple TV hackers enthusiasts are no longer able to obtain their new found access to their Apple TVs. More than one person is reporting that they previously enabled SSH and VNC access, but it is no longer accessible. The current unlikely theory is that Apple is fighting back and somehow remotely accessing the modified Apple TVs and is “fixing” them, although this would be quite an intrusive violation — something that maybe not even Sony would attempt. Our very own Apple TV has not fallen victim to what we would bet is some internal process that is cleaning things up as programmed. If you are worried, though, the Tutorial Ninjas have a few suggestions, like blocking your Apple TV from the internet and changing your password — this would mean no more 30 second samples of the iTunes Music Store’s top 10, but hey, you can’t have it all.
Here is another point of view from thinktechno:
Kinda interesting things happened with Apple TV last week, many enthusiast were able to do things with it that weren’t suppose to be possible. But now many people have reports that the previously possible SSH and VNC access, is no longer accessible. Looks like Apple’s is fighting back by somehow remotely plugging the holes of the Apple TV’s and fixing them, but Apple has gone a little to far, updating the TV without user’s knowledge. Fellows at Tutorial Ninjas have a nice guide on how to hack Apple TV. They’d also put up a post claiming that Apple used Apple TV’s live Internet connection to get inside and detect hacks and in turn shutting them down. They only had got a handful of confirmations, that means Apple’s fighting back. So its better of you either don’t do anything with it or just pull the plug from your internet connection. But its still real hazy on whether the Apple TV have been hack or not.
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