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How it started: This hotel has a TV with a barcode I can scan to control the TV from my phone???
How's it going:
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How it started: This hotel has a TV with a barcode I can scan to control the TV from my phone???
How's it going:
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The natural urge of hackers when they see some new networked thingy is to hack it. Simple knowledge of the TV set in the previous screenshot appears to be insufficient to control the TV, I also need the session cookie that was given by following the QRcode.
So what you see in the screenshot is the minimum HTTP request (that normally comes from browsers) that I can craft by hand to change the channel
