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A website that catalogued the misbehaviours of the various smart TV operating systems (and the easiest methods of defeat) would be handy here. E.g. Some TVs wi
by sjwright 7y ago
A website that catalogued the misbehaviours of the various smart TV operating systems (and the easiest methods of defeat) would be handy here.
E.g. Some TVs will honor wifi off setting. Or alternatively setting the TV to use the Ethernet port.
Or if it needs something on the other end, set up old underclocked Raspberry Pi as a basic router/DHCP server that connects to nothing; power it with TV's USB port.
If you've got a fancy router, connect it to your network with a fixed IP and firewall deny all packets from/to its IP.
If you've got a fancy AP, set up an alternative SSID that connects to an unused VLAN or otherwise routes to nowhere.
- oger 7y agoA Pi-Hole is good to have in every household. Takes minutes to set up and makes sure that queries to unwanted domains end up in the land of /dev/null
- sjwright 7y agoA pi-hole only works against adversaries that rely upon DNS, or haven't been coded to connect directly to "trusted" public DNS servers. (I'm almost astonished that advertising networks haven't switched to using raw IP addresses everywhere.)
- TremendousJudge 7y agoYou could probably very easily make a list of the "evil" IP addresses if that happened
- tlavoie 7y agoYou can combine approaches of course. My main in-home DNS, per the DHCP settings on the wi-fi, is a Pi-Hole. Secondary DNS is the pfSense firewall, so nothing's dead in the water if the Raspberry Pi falls over for some reason. The firewall has the same DNS block-lists as the Pi-Hole, but also has subscription lists of IPs to avoid. Most of those are spammers or malware, but can include whatever other category of malfeasance you desire.