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With this post I want to tell you about finding a way to circumvent security mechanisms in the Amazon FireTV. To achieve this goal work of different parties is combined to overcome different problems. You will get some background information on technologies which will help you to do projects like this yourself.
The Amazon FireTV is a nice set-top box with a state-of-the-art ARM CPU and FireOS , which is basically Android with some modifications.