Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think they’re erroneously stating that there will be so much technical information in the patent that it will be trivial to reverse engineer and remove from Roku products.

    Unfortunately that isn’t the case.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, the idea is that anything and everything can be hacked. It’s just that the difficulty varies wildly; some being trivial whereas others are impossible until someone finds an exploit. If you’re working with a total black box, you’ll have to make many assumptions, which means that figuring stuff out may take a while. If there’s at least some documentation, such as a patent, you won’t have to guess absolutely everything. That doesn’t guarantee that it’s going to be easy. Maybe the patent doesn’t go into much detail, but it still manages to describe the product in just enough detail that the company can sue anyone trying to come too close.

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