Smart TV's are Dumb IoT's. I have found they lack proper implementations of DNS resolvers. They do not obey TTL's and will aggressively retry connections. On

Smart TV's are Dumb IoT's. I have found they lack proper implementations of DNS resolvers. They do not obey TTL's and will aggressively retry connections. On the plus side, some of them don't check ssl certs, so you can snoop on the data they gather. [0] You can use tc netem to rate limit the TV and add a lot of packet loss and reordering so make mitm easier, as the TV will retry many times. [0] - https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/cia-mitm-hacking-tool.html https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/cia-mitm-hacking-tool.html