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I’ve read reports of these devices turning on wifi and auto connecting to known public wifi networks. Seems we went from a generation of technologists dismissin

I’ve read reports of these devices turning on wifi and auto connecting to known public wifi networks. Seems we went from a generation of technologists dismissing Stallman as paranoid to one living in his nightmare and not being appropriately familiar with his work, issues of art vs artist aside.

aerhardt 7mo ago
Business idea: a signal-jamming cover for your 65-inch TV. It looks like shit, is difficult to install, and costs an arm and a leg, but at least it prevents egregious privacy violations from your average chaebol or CCP-intervened corporation!
- LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
  How would you look at the panel, then? Do you think it is impenetrable? I'd doubt that any such coating would be good for viewing quality.
  - ethbr1 7mo ago
    > How would you look at the panel, then? You only view your TV from inside the Faraday cage, of course.
    - LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
      Living bunker-style in a SCIF just for TV? Nah!
      - ethbr1 7mo ago
        Don't forget your car. Definitely can't trust that without airgapping it.
        LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
        I'm using a nukkular subterrene. No worries there.
- adamsmark 7mo ago
  Why not just change your wifi password so that the TV can't connect again (after you've got your OTAs but I guess you could have loaded them on a USB stick to flash instead of wifi)
ecshafer 7mo ago
Stallman has always been right. Hes a radical, but he was always been right. He is basically prescient with seeing how private software would be used. He was just so early that people thought he was a crazy radical, but now he seems to be stricken with a case of being Cassandra.
RiverCrochet 7mo ago
There hasn't been open public wifi networks near where I live for over a decade. It also seems increasingly rare for businesses to have them (they usually have an SSID and password posted somewhere). I don't think this is a thing. But here's where it might go. Verizon and other cell companies bundle streaming apps with their plans. It's really not a far leap for them to bundle a TV as well. Especially if TVs get really expensive due to whatever factors - get a 120" TV for just $30 extra on your bill over the next 5 years. And Verizon could contract with an OEM to make a Verizon-specific model, and put a 5G modem in it, and lock it to Verizon service. Verizon's just an example here, AT&T, T-Mobile could do the same.

aerhardt 7mo ago

Business idea: a signal-jamming cover for your 65-inch TV. It looks like shit, is difficult to install, and costs an arm and a leg, but at least it prevents egregious privacy violations from your average chaebol or CCP-intervened corporation!

LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
How would you look at the panel, then? Do you think it is impenetrable? I'd doubt that any such coating would be good for viewing quality.
- ethbr1 7mo ago
  > How would you look at the panel, then? You only view your TV from inside the Faraday cage, of course.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
    Living bunker-style in a SCIF just for TV? Nah!
    - ethbr1 7mo ago
      Don't forget your car. Definitely can't trust that without airgapping it.
      - LargoLasskhyfv 7mo ago
        I'm using a nukkular subterrene. No worries there.
adamsmark 7mo ago
Why not just change your wifi password so that the TV can't connect again (after you've got your OTAs but I guess you could have loaded them on a USB stick to flash instead of wifi)

ecshafer 7mo ago

Stallman has always been right. Hes a radical, but he was always been right. He is basically prescient with seeing how private software would be used. He was just so early that people thought he was a crazy radical, but now he seems to be stricken with a case of being Cassandra.

RiverCrochet 7mo ago

There hasn't been open public wifi networks near where I live for over a decade. It also seems increasingly rare for businesses to have them (they usually have an SSID and password posted somewhere). I don't think this is a thing. But here's where it might go. Verizon and other cell companies bundle streaming apps with their plans. It's really not a far leap for them to bundle a TV as well. Especially if TVs get really expensive due to whatever factors - get a 120" TV for just $30 extra on your bill over the next 5 years. And Verizon could contract with an OEM to make a Verizon-specific model, and put a 5G modem in it, and lock it to Verizon service. Verizon's just an example here, AT&T, T-Mobile could do the same.