Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361
The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]
They can’t really spy on me b/c I don’t have it connected to the internet and I’m 99.999% sure that whatever they might discover by spying on me isn’t worth the price of a cellular network card and ongoing costs associated with that.
Yeah nah mate they worked that one out years ago. Shit scans for adhoc/unsecured, or uses a low level local mesh until they hit one that does have internet
After turning off the wifi setting on my 2022ish Samsung TV, no attempts to connect to wifi. I don’t have a password, but it doesn’t appear to have connected to my wifi.
I also live in the woods and there’s no neighbor wifi or anything.
That said, before I turned wifi off, the TV was CONSTANTLY sending data to the mothership.
But why don’t you have a WiFi password?
Laziness, mostly. Got tired of telling folks what the password was. And we’re far enough out that nobody can rogue connect to the network.