~~Don’t~~ Adjust Your Television Set

Thomas Wilson

Making apps for TVs is hard, so what happens if you install one without running a single line of code? In this talk, we’ll walk through the process of exploring Samsung’s Tizen platform, focusing on low-friction ways to find bugs in the app install surface. Along the way, we’ll look at the surprisingly simple package that gave us shell access, how we broke out of Samsung’s official emulator, and what’s left to uncover. In an environment where even the emulator denies you a shell, we’re taking back the console.