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Obviously that's not the point, here. The fact that Samsung has the ability to brick a TV remotely _at all_ is ridiculous. It's not hard to imagine this being u
by ollien 5y ago
Obviously that's not the point, here. The fact that Samsung has the ability to brick a TV remotely _at all_ is ridiculous. It's not hard to imagine this being used by an attacker to shut down all Samsung TVs remotely, or for planned obsolescence if you want to be more cynical.
- gambiting 5y agoOr.....against thieves. As someone who had stuff stolen, I'd pay money for electronics that catches fire once reported stolen, thieves are literally scum of the earth and only one step above murderers and rapists in my books. Great step by Samsung here.
- dpedu 5y agoYou'd install a firebomb in your own home? I think you need to rethink this position.
- Filligree 5y agoI carry one in my pocket every day, so why not?
- nate_meurer 5y agoI can't argue with your assessment of thieves, but if you're going to have self-destruct mechanisms in your devices, appliances, or car, do you really trust a company like Samsung with the red button? Wouldn't you rather have that under your own control?
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoThat's akin to a booby trap, and US law does not look kindly on such machinations.
- mminer237 5y agoThat would be about as huge of a security failure as an attacker sending out a malicious OS update for any other device, except with a planned, controlled way to disable TVs, Samsung could reenable them promptly once they realize. Intentionally disabling purchased devices to force them to buy new ones is called trespass to chattels and is illegal.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoWhich part of the South African laws says that?
- mminer237 5y agoI am not a South African lawyer, but it is almost assuredly part of their common law if nothing else. Being based more on Roman-Dutch law, they probably call it an Aquilian action instead.
- ollien 5y ago> Intentionally disabling purchased devices to force them to buy new ones is called trespass to chattels and is illegal. You've never seen any IoT devices shut down remotely? It happens all the time.