Hacking the Apple TV and Where your Forensic Data Lives

Presented at DEF CON 17 (2009), July 30, 2009, 3 p.m. (120 minutes).

This is a primer for both newbie Apple TV hackers and digital forensics investigators. The intent of the presentation is to show how easy it is to modify an Apple TV to run 3rd-party applications and also point out where the Apple TV tracks your activities (including files played, applications installed, and connected networks).

Presenters:

• Kevin Estis - Security Researcher
  Kevin Estis has over 17 years experience in finding bad people on good networks...and vice-versa. His Master's project in Digital Forensics was on Apple TV forensics so that he could convince he wife that an Apple TV would be put to good use. Since then he's broken and fixed the Apple TV more times than he can count.
• Randy Robbins - Security Researcher
  Randy Robbins has many years of experience in IT Security and breaking stuff. Armed with a Master's Degree in Digital Forensics, he is working to spread the knowledge of secure computing to whomever will listen to his rantings.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-17/dc-17-speakers.html#Estis
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 17/DEF CON 17 video and slides/DEF CON 17 - Kevin Estis - Hacking the Apple TV - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-WCy3Bdzkc

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 22 (2014) / NinjaTV - Increasing Your Smart TV's IQ Without Bricking It
• DEF CON 11 (2003) / Satellite TV Technology
• Objective by the Sea version 3.0 (2020) / tvOS-Checkra1n