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You don't connect your TV to the internet.

• mkl 2y ago
  A report of a Samsung TV automatically connecting to a nearby unsecured network: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912135232/https://forum.developer.samsung.com/t/if-you-choose-to-not-connect-your-samsung-smart-tv-to-wifi-it-will-secretly-connect-to-your-neighbours-passwordless-wifi/7926 https://web.archive.org/web/20210912135232/https://forum.dev... Not as common as I thought though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350
  • Someone1234 2y ago
    We're linking to a random forum post as "proof?" If this was a widespread problem, we'd know it, but all we get is conspiracies which this is.
    • mkl 2y ago
      Kind of the opposite. I had heard of it happening, so looked for evidence, and found that HN post asking for evidence, with that random post seemingly the only bit supplied.
      • rbanffy 2y ago
        Shouldn't be hard to honeypot your TV into doing that - just set up a network and check if the TV connects to it, or set up sniffing at the gateway and see if there's any traffic that seems unaccounted for (as in not coming from your set-top box and suspiciously large for the periodic software update checks).