The first prerequisites for jailbreaking seen in Apple TV
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
announced a little less than a month to set-top box Apple TV recently went on sale, and immediately took the hacker inquisitive minds. More specifically, they were interested in possibility breaking set-top boxes for a major expansion of its capabilities.
In the study, the new Apple offspring turned out that it operates on the basis of software platform iOS. This could mean that, as well as other portable devices from Apple, functioning in the same software environment, Apple TV may be subjected to a similar procedure to jailbreak and install modified firmware.
In addition, it appears that Apple TV is available in the port micro-USB can be used to restore the firmware of the device via iTunes. Dialog menu while similar to what is seen when connecting iPhone, iPad or iPod. That is, there is a path to self-boot firmware, including their modified versions, in the set-top box.
Another device 8 GB of internal flash memory have been found from experts iFixitAnd this is a great start for the installation of modified software in the future.
The question may arise, and that this will give the hacking Apple TV file system? Why this simple, in general, the device has some additional applications? The answer is actually simple and well-known owner of TV set-top boxes of the first generation. Yes, it hack and modify that allows you to play videos in virtually any format. Similar functionality will not interfere in the new gadget. What about the games from the App Store, in which you can play on your big screen TV using the iPhone as a joystick or even the iPad?
A small box, in fact conceals a huge potential to be explicitly implemented by Apple in the future, but you want to touch this very future now. Remember the story of iPhone. The first model is initially positioned as a regular phone, and only with the release of iOS 2.0 has evolved into a smartphone. But it was the Installer and third-party applications have been long before the launch of App Store. History, as we know, develops in a spiral, so waiting for the appearance Installer (or rather, Cydia) and Apple TV.