Just an idea for hacking the Boxee Box to gain external Shell access.

[huhugrub]

I've noticed that some Boxee Box Apps are using .so dynamic libraries to access what I assume O/S specific features or other native image/audio/SQLLite functions etc.

Would it be possible to implement an external O/S or shell call from with a python .so library to run external commands? If the exec() call is not available to python, then it may be possible to statically link in a exec() function call from Linux Kernel to get this done? Or even Boxee Box's obfuscated version of exec()?

[miasmablk]

I've noticed that some Boxee Box Apps are using .so dynamic libraries to access what I assume O/S specific features or other native image/audio/SQLLite functions etc.

Would it be possible to implement an external O/S or shell call from with a python .so library to run external commands? If the exec() call is not available to python, then it may be possible to statically link in a exec() function call from Linux Kernel to get this done? Or even Boxee Box's obfuscated version of exec()?

there's only one way to find out right?