Would love to know how true this is as I wouldn’t put it past manufacturers
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TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 day agoI do not know how true it is, but I’ve heard that some of them will create a mesh network if your neighbor has the same brand and it’s connected to the internet.
I’ve always meant to look into it but I have big dumb TVs that work for now.
christophski@feddit.uk 1 day ago
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s another reply further down that goes into specifics. I ain’t the one because I didn’t come with receipts and I’m just a drunk.
flappy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s called wardriving, a practise Samsung TVs are infamous for.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I never put that together with wardriving but that’s exactly what it is. Thank you for that.
Unrelated story: ~20 years ago I was in the military and broke as hell. I went wardriving in my neighborhood looking for open wifi and found a business not too far away that had it. So I built an antenna out of a coffee can, mounted it up just outside my window, and got free wifi for months.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Open the tv and rip out the antenna. Y’all already forgot the classic secret agent trope of checking the hotel room for bugs? Now we all get to play that game!
Anivia@feddit.org 1 day ago
Nowadays the antenna is often embedded into the pcb, so no way to rip it out other than scraping off the traces
flappy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Google part numbers (if they aren’t scratched off/lasered off/ epoxied). Once you’ve found the ethernet controller, you can short out the pins, or rip it off the board.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
“mechanical malfunction, please contact support” as a big red warning that you cannot dismiss