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Gee who would have seen that coming...
At this point, people have to wonder what benefits the IOT fabric provides THEM versus what benefits it provides the vendor or configurator/bundler...
Of far greater concern is the pile of unpatched linuces these crapware bloatware "embedded linux" devices tend to be equipped with. It's an entry vector...
or hardcoded "admin:admin" login credentials...
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Oh FFS I just learned this was a thing, I can't even trust my cables anymore.
Be aware that your ethernet cables could also be powering stuff, so that's another cable to watch out for ;)
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Sorry, I was being a bit lazy in my comment. I didn't specify, but I don't really suspect they are sending full frames back if for no other reason than bandwidth. But, honestly fingerprinting is so similar it might as well be the same thing. Though thankfully, yes, the fingerprint calculated for something personal probably is meaningless to them, but possibly could be replaced with a reversible option
One danger is that videos can now "phone home" with the TV they're viewed on. You could torrent through Tor and take all sorts of precautions, then watch on your TV at home and leak your viewing habits. Or worse, get someone else targeted for copyright enforcement if you watch pirated content on their TV.
> Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook No way! Has that ever been news? It is the first thing that comes to mind when some product 'needs' to be connected to the internet. Sending private data is most likely the only reason a internet connection can be made with the device. All the 'great' software around it is only fluff supporting to lure people sending their private data unknowingly. Do th…
The problem is that I want to just use the netflix built-into the TV. Firing up a separate device just to watch something seems like a waste of energy to me, and then I probably need a separate controller for it(like, I can control the PS4 with my TV remote, but I cannot switch it on remotely without using the DS4). >>I have a new x-large smart tv which I would never connect to the internet for these reasons. I use a…
This is a pretty open secret within the industry. Geographic data can be provided via setup (a lot of TV's ask for a zip code on setup) or usually simply via GeoIP lookup. Dig a bit deeper and you get into service provided by Samba TV and or Inscape and you can find that they're sending back frames of video in a lot of cases to track what you're watching. This data is becoming a huge mechanism for subsidizing TV sale…
How do Doctor's that use TVs like this in meeting rooms get around HIPAA? or other places with PII, etc? With so much stuff being thrown to TVs now, a lot of times they are inheriently monitors, and there are very few people who think taking a screenshot of a monitor is not invasive.
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One danger is that videos can now "phone home" with the TV they're viewed on. You could torrent through Tor and take all sorts of precautions, then watch on your TV at home and leak your viewing habits. Or worse, get someone else targeted for copyright enforcement if you watch pirated content on their TV.
How would data in the video be used to direct the TV to phone home? As in, what field would be set?
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The tv definitely phones home too, my Pi Hole blocks a few hundred attempts to lookup log-ingestion.samsungacr.com, xpu.samsungelectronics.com and upu.samsungelectronics.com per day.
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Encrypted ones do, at least every commercial version these TV’s would be able to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup Is the closest thing to an exception that I know of but still required user action to connect, and it’s been deprecated for a long time. Some enterprise systems don’t require users to enter passwords, but the software still uses them internally when talking to the network. PS: Un…
Nothing’s stopping TVs from hopping on unencrypted networks.