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So what happens if you just don't plug in the network cable or setup WiFi? How does it gather anything?

• accounthere 12y ago
  FBI van with free wifi goes through your neighborhood, the TV happily auto-connects to it and dumps all its data. How can we make the wifi module inside the TV unusable?
  • analog31 12y ago
    DDOS it? I mean something that connects to that WiFi and smothers it with so much data that no other device can get a word in edgewise.
  • joshu 12y ago
    Open it, remove antenna?
• strathmeyer 12y ago
  Well then it doesn't let you watch it, obviously.
  • VLM 12y ago
    Combining two wikipedia articles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_broadband_Internet_subscriptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_households http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_... there are 87 million broadband subscriptions (likely shared) vs 117 million households. So thats at least 30 million permanently un-TVed households. Which would probably be good for the nation. My mother in law got a smart TV about three years ago. No internet access for her. At the time I couldn't figure it out, but it makes more sense now. One interesting problem is there are a lot of TV models out there and none of the software will ever be upgraded in practice, its like Android phones, its unlikely it'll ever be upgraded from what it shipped with. Its likely the "smart" features of her TV are already unusable due to API changes over the years.
• Untit1ed 12y ago
  If a neighbor has unprotected wifi it could feasibly connect there and start phoning home.
• jmadsen 12y ago
  Then you clearly have something to hide, and Oh! I pity you, fool!