MovieBeam hardware gets hacked for shell access

Judging from the fairly consistent stream of comments on our "MovieBeam is dead" post, there are quite a few of you out there looking to hack your now-defunct MovieBeam hardware -- which strikes us as a somewhat quixotic effort, but then again, so was the entire MovieBeam enterprise. Anyway, it looks like some solid progress is starting to be made, with a dev wiki up and running, and instructions for getting into the hard drive, netbooting, gaining shell access, and even running custom code posted up. It's all at the read link, for those of you still chasing the dream.

[Nathan @ Jan 25th 2008 8:05PM]

I'll have my MythTV STB yet!

[webon @ Jan 25th 2008 8:18PM]

is that Pr0n??

[Jason @ Jan 25th 2008 8:33PM]

40 year old virgin

[Nathan @ Jan 25th 2008 8:36PM]

Mmmm, prawns....great, now I want seafood.

[MitchSchaft @ Jan 25th 2008 10:25PM]

Where are those guys for our v1 Linksys/HP extender project?!

http://www.nekidbob.com/

[fischju @ Jan 25th 2008 11:15PM]

Good job working the word-of-the-day into a news post!