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No it's not. Not when all basic TV functionality is handled through its operating system.
by debaserab2 10y ago
No it's not. Not when all basic TV functionality is handled through its operating system.
- mike-cardwell 10y agoI have a Sony Bravia Smart TV. The only thing I use on it is the screen, the power button, and the volume control. Everything else is handled by the Internet connected Amazon Fire TV stick I plug into it. It is effectively a dumb TV and will not get infected by malware.
- kfriede 10y agoUnless it can be infected using the stick as a proxy (though I haven't seen that as a possible vulnerability yet).
- TylerE 10y agoThat'd be quite the feat, at the only connectivity between the stick and TV is via HDMI.
- mciancia 10y agoEthernet over HDMI is a thing.
- wernercd 10y agoWell... considering Light Bulbs can now be infected over the air: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/09/a-lightbulb-worm-could-take-ov.html http://boingboing.net/2016/11/09/a-lightbulb-worm-could-take... I would agree odds are low of something that insidious... but it's hard to say "it'd be impossible for my TV to get hacked" when even light bulbs are getting attacked.
- voltagex_ 10y agohttps://hackaday.com/2015/08/09/def-con-hdmi-cec-fuzzing/ https://hackaday.com/2015/08/09/def-con-hdmi-cec-fuzzing/
- debaserab2 10y agoI have an LG with WebOS and try to use my TV the same as you. I don't have it connected to wifi so it's unlikely that it will get infected with malware anytime soon, but it did crash yesterday when I turned it off at the end of the night. I had to pull out the power plug to turn it off. That's one thing that never happened to me with a (truly) dumb TV and I've only owned this one for a month. I sure hope the CPU hardware running this OS doesn't degrade as quickly as normal consumer PC hardware and I can expect it to run as quick and reliably as it does now in ten years from now (like the TV it replaced did).