17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Has anyone hacked WebTV to enable a terminal to connect to a plain vanilla ISP (or better yet a local ethernet) or is it inexorably tied to their network of proxy servers? I get the impression that like a Newton or any other graphically limited device a WebTV browser would have to be aided by a proxy server that translates the content to more amenable form before it can take a crack at it. If it were possible to divorce it from their service it might be a nifty device for less than $100. This would become especially appealing if 128 bit crypto were thrown into the bargain. Steve Bryan Vendorsystems International email: sbryan@vendorsystems.com icq: 5263678 pgp fingerprint: D758 183C 8B79 B28E 6D4C 2653 E476 82E6 DA7C 9AC5