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"By holding down the single button, while powering the device, the Chromecast boots into USB boot mode. USB boot mode looks for a signed image at 0×1000 on the USB drive. When found, the image is passed to the internal crypto hardware to be verified, but after this process the return code is never checked! Therefore, we can execute any code at will."
That's a pretty big screw-up on someone's part - it seems strange that no one tested "does this unsigned image boot".
Exactly this. I ran into the exact same problem when I graduated from EE, where employers wanted 20 years experience, familiarity with every piece of software out there, and to pay just minimum wage. When I did finally land a job, I sat around for weeks reading every manual and piece of documentation I could find - it was the only way I could do my job. I never did receive any training, and quit after 4 months.
I ended up picking up work as a Web Developer, and here we are. Even though people are people, I've found myself much happer in the "developer" atmosphere. As much as I would like to get back into EE, the bureaucracy of most of the "good" companies will keep me away.
EDIT A similar article appears to be almost the same, and is free on a number of news websites: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements...
[0] http://www2.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10179296&w...
"Warning: Suspected phishing site!
The website at blog.fin1te.net contains elements from sites which have been reported as “phishing” sites. Phishing sites trick users into disclosing personal or financial information, often by pretending to represent trusted institutions, such as banks."
The home page doesn't produce this message, even though the linked article is summarized there. Clicking on the article from the home page also produces this message.
Nonetheless, very simple yet very clever exploit! I'm sure someone kicked themselves pretty hard over that one.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aroundt...
https://github.com/emre/macster/blob/master/macster/__main__...
Still pretty darn cool though.
As long as they each gain the customers the other loses, they win.
When I moved a year later, they told me I would have to pay that activation fee again, because Bell treats move orders like setting up a new customer, and thus they can't waive the fee. I ended up going with another ISP that had a similar promo.
When I saw & tried Xamarin, I had the exact thing I was trying to do in Titanium done within an hour, and that includes learning the SDK.
Highly, highly recommended. Also, when searching for help, be sure to search for MonoTouch as well as Xamarin. Finally, check out their IRC channel - some very helpful people there.