Rooting a locked-down Hisense VIDAA TV and running Doom
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A developer's write-up describes rooting a locked-down Hisense VIDAA TV: reverse-engineering its MQTT remote-control certificate and pairing handshake to build a custom launcher the TV installs itself, then exploiting a path-traversal flaw in the TV browser's file bridge to reach the root filesystem and gain a persistent root shell.