"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
So first, you'd need to download and install special software to the TV
to
get the LEDs to show what you want?

The TV downloads updates regularly. You'd just have to fool it into
loading some hacked update instead of the genuine thing.

Going to be a pretty major hack, I'd say. Have 'they' really got
programmers writing this new software for every single telly on the
market?

surprisingly,

yes this is exactly what the techs in the spooks department spend their time
doing

it's the easy part

the hard part is, as has been said, getting it onto a remote TV which can be
anything from not that difficult to extremely bloody difficult, depending
upon what levels of authentication the manufacture of the TV uses for OTA
updates.

(I suspect that they aren't going to persuade too many people to stick a
dodgy USB stick into their TV, which is how they will test their programs in
their lab)

tim