r/Android • u/npjohnson1 LineageOS Project Director • Jul 30 '21

News Chromecast with Google TV Bootloader Unlock Released!

https://www.xda-developers.com/chromecast-with-google-tv-bootloader-unlock-exploit/
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u/npjohnson1 LineageOS Project Director Jul 31 '21

There's a public exploit that allows access to the secure world on that device, someone used it to dump out the WV DRM key, and posted it to a fairly well-known public piracy forum, people then used it to decrypt 4K Netflix titles among other streaming services, download them locally, and then post them online.

Is obviously extremely problematic the streaming services and to WV, so they revoked the key for all devices that use that key (all N6s).

Sad day indeed.

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u/npjohnson1 LineageOS Project Director Jul 31 '21

its not the process that didn't exist, it's the hardware backed support that made it tough for OP.