Rob Beschizza
Gear

Apple Cracking Down on Apple TV Hacking?

Apple TV is a capable little box, with a Pentium 4 processor, 40GB hard drive, NVidia GForce 7300 graphics and 256MB RAM. Technically, there’s not much to distinguish it from the Mac Mini, or even game consoles like the XBox or Nintendo’s Wii. But far as functionality is concerned, it’s a tightly-run ship, offering iTunes-to-TV […]

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Apple TV is a capable little box, with a Pentium 4 processor, 40GB hard drive, NVidia GForce 7300 graphics and 256MB RAM. Technically, there's not much to distinguish it from the Mac Mini, or even game consoles like the XBox or Nintendo's Wii. But far as functionality is concerned, it's a tightly-run ship, offering iTunes-to-TV media streaming and not much else.

And if reports from tinkerers are correct, that's exactly how Apple intends things to stay.

Reports are coming in that modifications made to the box are being rolled back remotely by Apple, though anecdotal reports do not evidence make. Apple TV hacker "IPP" writes:

"Several of us over in the Awkward TV IRC(l0rdr0ck, myself, and others) have had our Mod’d Apple TV’s played with over night(SSH/VNC disabled), our guess is apple has started to fight back the mod’d Apple TV’s. This is a warning to all of you to block your Apple TV from the internet by going into your routers settings and denying it internet access!"

Or could it be malicious hackers who have found an exploit?

Apple vs Apple TV Mod’rs [tutorialninjas]