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How to get my senior citz. parents TV without cable? 255$ month cable bill!
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NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: cdev on April 17, 2021, 01:23:46 pm ---They may look for a local big cable company AP (not yours) and connect anyway, via that. As long as the TV is plugged in/has power.

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Would be interesting to hack one of those smart TVs to flood the telemetry with junk or even better hijack its connection for your own use.
james_s:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on April 17, 2021, 04:21:10 pm ---Would be interesting to hack one of those smart TVs to flood the telemetry with junk or even better hijack its connection for your own use.

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That could end up being a crime, you'd want to carefully check the laws to make sure you won't get charged with perpetrating a DOS attack or something.
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 17, 2021, 05:41:46 pm ---That could end up being a crime, you'd want to carefully check the laws to make sure you won't get charged with perpetrating a DOS attack or something.

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If it's not connected to your own network, it won't be connected to your IP address. If you really want to be safe, buy the TV secondhand with cash and do the work from some place other than home. There's also an element of plausible deniability in that you were triggering the telemetry repeatedly when it's supposed to be offline so you can figure out where it's storing that information if it does. (Most likely it doesn't try to connect to neighboring wireless networks, that itself can be illegal in some areas especially if those networks are encrypted.)
Zero999:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on April 17, 2021, 07:22:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 17, 2021, 05:41:46 pm ---That could end up being a crime, you'd want to carefully check the laws to make sure you won't get charged with perpetrating a DOS attack or something.

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If it's not connected to your own network, it won't be connected to your IP address. If you really want to be safe, buy the TV secondhand with cash and do the work from some place other than home. There's also an element of plausible deniability in that you were triggering the telemetry repeatedly when it's supposed to be offline so you can figure out where it's storing that information if it does. (Most likely it doesn't try to connect to neighboring wireless networks, that itself can be illegal in some areas especially if those networks are encrypted.)

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If you buy it second hand, you can pretend it came pre-hacked and you have no idea why it's doing it.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on April 18, 2021, 08:48:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on April 17, 2021, 07:22:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on April 17, 2021, 05:41:46 pm ---That could end up being a crime, you'd want to carefully check the laws to make sure you won't get charged with perpetrating a DOS attack or something.

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If it's not connected to your own network, it won't be connected to your IP address. If you really want to be safe, buy the TV secondhand with cash and do the work from some place other than home. There's also an element of plausible deniability in that you were triggering the telemetry repeatedly when it's supposed to be offline so you can figure out where it's storing that information if it does. (Most likely it doesn't try to connect to neighboring wireless networks, that itself can be illegal in some areas especially if those networks are encrypted.)

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If you buy it second hand, you can pretend it came pre-hacked and you have no idea why it's doing it.

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It doesn't always have to be second hand to contain malicious behavior.
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