No matter how much they ask
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EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
yep, never allow them to connect to the internet
bamfic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
yep, never allow them to connect to the internet
No matter how much they ask
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t think my TV has ever been connected to the internet. As a safe guard to ensure that it never is I banned its wired and wireless MAC address from my network. So even if someone did plug it in…nothing.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
A lot of shit makes a new, random MAC address for every new connection to an access point now
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There is usually two types of MAC randomization and they both apply to wireless. One is pre-auth and is part of the IEEE 802.11aq Pre-Association Service Discovery spec. It makes it harder to track a user just because they got in range of an AP.
The other is when they actually connect to an SSID. Win10 and mobile OS’s started supporting this but it maintains a relationship between a MAC/SSID pairing otherwise you would have all kinds of network/auth weirdness if it didn’t.
Regardless if I noticed a device on my network behaving poorly by randomizing its MAC on every connection then I’d swap my network over to a grant list of MAC addresses and it can happily knock itself offline as much as it wants. Utilize a guest networks for visitors to avoid the headache of list management when a friend stops by and wants WiFi.
I can say I’ve never seen that behavior across all my devices though.
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KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’ve jokingly said this before, but just wait until manufacturers start adding 4G/5G to TVs explicitly for ads and telemetry…
rustyredox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just like modern cars… I wish there was some kind legislation that would limit phone-home telemetry to emergency service telecommunication frequencies, and be opt-in only. That way any OEM operating under commercial cellular frequencies would thus be unlicensed, and subject to FCC violations and import bans. Like what OnStar was originally pitched as; only auto dialing to 911, and 911 only, if you were unresponsive after airbags deployed. OEM couldn’t use the telecommunication frequencies for anything other than networking with emergency service endpoints on the same VLAN.
Anything recorded by the vehicle would be required to stay on the vehicle due privacy regulations, like the black box recorder for warranted forensic investigations. OTA updates could also be distributed offline for users to download and flash via USB, like any motherboard bios, so transactions would be write only.