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What do you need security updates for if you don’t connect it to the Internet?
by pwdisswordfish9 5y ago
What do you need security updates for if you don’t connect it to the Internet?
- tomnipotent 5y agoUpdates include more than just security fixes.
- spurgu 5y agoYes but to nitpick he already mentioned bugfixes and file format support alongside security fixes (which he wouldn't/shouldn't need). :)
- yholio 5y agoI disagree. You can have security bugs in non-connected devices, for example crafted file formats or metadata that can carry executable payload, worms that force their way in though some insecure Bluetooth receiver, or even by infecting the myriad data channels embedded in modern broadcasting; access to such a broadcast stream might be very lucrative since it will give you access to tens of thousands to tens of millions of devices. I agree that the target is low value and that the attacker will most likely not bother infecting Android TVs; he would need to force them to connect to WiFi to exfiltrate any data, a very complex and unlikely attack if your TV is not used to monitor uranium centrifuge data.