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Codex Autonomously Hacked A Samsung Tv To Root No Bug Pointers Given

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2026-04-17 / hn-researcherCodex Autonomously Hacked a Samsung TV to Root — No Bug Pointers GivenCALIF researchers gave OpenAI's Codex a browser-level foothold on a Samsung Smart TV and the KantS2 firmware source tree, without pointing it at any specific bug. Codex independently found a world-writable kernel driver (/dev/ntksys) that mapped raw physical memory to user space, and escalated to full root — chaining low-severity access into complete system compromise in hours. 251pts on HN. Demonstrates AI agents as autonomous offensive security tools.

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