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pre 2008 models are your best option, a bunch of privacy violating electronics have been mandated in the US since then. Many of them have confirmed backdoors i
by ren_engineer 4y ago
pre 2008 models are your best option, a bunch of privacy violating electronics have been mandated in the US since then. Many of them have confirmed backdoors
if it wasn't for these regulations I think there would be a huge market for "dumb" cars that just have the essentials without a bunch of added stuff. Same goes for TVs, I' love to buy a dumb flat screen TV
at this point seems like corporations are using dystopian sci-fi for ideas and inspiration rather than as something to avoid. Stuff like this a few years ago was literally parody material, now it's actually happening
- bitL 4y agoNobody is forcing you to plug a smart TV into Internet and no smart TV has the capability to talk to 5G free/marketing channels yet.
- zapdrive 4y agoSome TVs are known to look for open WiFi networks in order to connect to the internet and send data back home.
- rosnd 4y agoWhich ones? The vague "Some TVs" screams FUD. Past conversations about this on HN suggest that this is almost certainly a complete fabrication, not something that has actually been documented.