TiVo power-users are accustomed to getting access to a variety of powerful hidden features by keying in a manufacturer's "backdoor" password that unlocks them. With TiVo's latest OS update, though, the password has been changed and users are locked out. In response TiVo users have launched a SETI@Home-style distributed computation project to crack the password by brute force, farming the job out to thousands of computers that try different combinations.
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