Texas is suing 5 major TV makers for spying on citizens
(texasattorneygeneral.gov)
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I remember years back when an LG "smart" TV that my roommate had would crash our internet router. Found out using a packet sniffer that even though the TV wasn't configured to be connected to a network it would continually and rapidly try to connect to any available wifi connection in range. That pissed me off.
Recently helped a friend setup a new TV. We disabled WiFi but also blocked the MAC at the router level. I do not trust the menus at all. Not to mention as long as it's plugged in it's always on. Literal 1984 apparatus.
Yep, blacklisting the MAC address in the router config was my "fix" for that fuckery.
They need to sell a small wifi router that doesn't actually route. It just captures devices and blackholes them completely.
Could do that with any old wifi router. Just give it an open wifi and don't connect it to the internet.
Yea, I'm thinking of my parents, where I could just tell them to get a $20 item off of an online store, they plug it in, point the TV at it, and forget the rest.
It should be that you can't even, accidentally, connect any network to this thing. A solid unfailing black hole.
This is genius. Low-tech solutions tend to be the best.
... so a pi-hole then?
I'm sure you could do that with a Linux box
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