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Well, good thing my Vizio is firewalled off from anything and everything. So it shall remain. It won't get any firmware updates. Funny how Vizio already got fi
by seized 5y ago
Well, good thing my Vizio is firewalled off from anything and everything. So it shall remain. It won't get any firmware updates.
Funny how Vizio already got fined for almost exactly this. But now it's back as a ""feature"" for advertising.
- pabs3 5y agoThe firmware updates could come over a TV broadcast at some point. Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs, so that is another thing to worry about.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoThere's been talk in the past about delivering data to STBs via closed-captioning side channels [1]. I don't know if it ever was actually done, but I've got to imagine there's even more room in modern broadcasts for this sort of thing. 1 = https://zatznotfunny.com/2005-11/tivo-cc-tagging-patent-application/ https://zatznotfunny.com/2005-11/tivo-cc-tagging-patent-appl...
- seized 5y agoUnlikely via my Roku, or whatever eventually replaces it. But yes... I dropped cable a few years ago in favor of Plex and Netflix.