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I tried to never connect my Smart TV to anything, but I realized one day (when someone's stuff was playing on it without me accepting any request...) it connect
by the_svd_doctor 7y ago
I tried to never connect my Smart TV to anything, but I realized one day (when someone's stuff was playing on it without me accepting any request...) it connected an open network in my residence.
The only trick that worked to prevent it from connecting was putting the wrong password, and let it loop forever, trying to connect. Ugly.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoI have an extra SSID which has no internet access and logs all of the things for exactly this reason.
- inafewwords 7y agoPick up anything interesting off your IoT and smart devices
- spydum 7y agoI would imagine. Otho g but a bunch of DNS queries? Maybe the occasional fall back hardcoded IP?
- mastazi 7y agoThat's a very good idea! Thank you for sharing!
- milofeynman 7y agoWhat's the simple setup for something like this?
- sp332 7y agoLots of consumer routers these days let you set parental controls. Disable access entirely, or put time limits on it, then remove all the allowed times.
- paulie_a 7y agoUbiqti makes it really simple Basically create a new hidden ssid and make a new rout that goes nowhere Then enter SSID and password into the tv You can monitor that interface too
- Godel_unicode 7y agoFor bonus points, mirror the traffic off to a zeek to get even more than the ubiquiti DPI
- 19ylram49 7y agoI’ve been wanting to set up something like this, but I’m too lazy. It probably wouldn’t even take that long to set up.
- sha666sum 7y agoI've heard about this before. Which manufacturer? Although I'm never buying a smart TV, it's interesting to maintain a mental blacklist of vendors.
- mokus 7y agoI would also like to know this. This is absolutely unacceptable behavior and I would be fuming if my device pulled a stunt like that.
- xxs 7y agoyou can block any device by their mac on your router
- mkl 7y agoSome TVs will connect to your neighbours' open wifi, so no, you can't, unfortunately.
- m-p-3 7y agoNo wonder why there are so many rogue IoT devices and botnets. This kind of behavior from the TV manufacturers needs to stop. Stop making everything connected, or at least make it work properly without Internet access, and stop connecting devices at any cost.
- xxs 7y agoan interesting take - it has been a while to see a non-password, no sign up network around. But I can imagine it popular in apartment buildings. To be fair, if my TV connects to a network on its right own, I'd return it.
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