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Until your neighbor enables an open, unprotected wifi, your smart TV connects to it and auto-updates to start showing you ads.
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Until your neighbor enables an open, unprotected wifi, your smart TV connects to it and auto-updates to start showing you ads.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoA device automatically connecting to unprotected wifi is a major security issue waiting to happen.
- Sakos 5y agoWhen has that issue stopped any of these companies?
- philistine 5y agoIt has; we have no proof of any TV doing that. Unless we see proof, it doesn’t happen.
- Sakos 5y agoNot sure if you're serious or if this is sarcasm.
- philistine 5y agoI'm serious. No TV has been proven to automatically connect to open Wi-Fi. Not one.
- kesslern 5y agoAre there any TV models that are proven/documented to do this? I hear this claim all the time but I can't find a single demo of it happening. A previous HN thread [0] couldn't come up with any examples either. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoSamsung TVs do show an interface called 'p2p0' along 'eth0' - I think this is visible in the Netflix diagnostic screen. Dunno really what it means or does.
- netsharc 5y agoEvery HN discussion about smart TVs have the same points repeated again and again... "Just wait until built-in 5G modems!".
- landmass 5y agoAmazon Sidewalk shares signals in a blatant misuse of my WiFi password.
- phendrenad2 5y agoThere is ONE comment by ONE random dude on the Samsung forums. That's it. The standards for evidence that tech people will accept continue to amaze me. (https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/timberlake/ https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/timberlake/)