Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is going to come as a shock to you, but HDMI has been a thing since 2004. You can find 15 year old dumb TVs with HDMI.

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  • BigT54@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or you could just use a new tv with smart features and never connect it to your network. It’s what I’ve done with all the TVs in my house and I simple use an external device I trust to stream.

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    • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Newer “smart” sets, particularly from Vizio and a couple other brands, will not let you exit the setup or use the inputs without an internet connection

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      • BigT54@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, I would immediately return any TV that pulled that bs. I have used Sony TV’s for a very long time and have never encountered this issue, I even bought a new one in summer 2022 and it did not require Internet connection to function.

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      • planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        LTT reviewed a Roku one like that recently and for some reason didn’t recommend immediately binning it.

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    • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is going to be such a nightmare as smart devices become the majority.

      Didn’t connect your TV to the Internet? Don’t worry, it’ll spy on you by connecting to the neighbor’s tv. Or the built-in WiFi in the modem. Or the power company’s smart meter via powerline-networking.

      Products are going to be engineered to sell backdoor access at a hefty price, if they aren’t already.

      Things are going to get scary.

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      • aphonefriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just like anything with technology though, there will be people in the other side too. Does that magic TV with a mind of it’s own have a USB port? If they take away the USB , they will have to add some way to maintenance it. There will always be a way to get at the kernel if you know what you’re doing.

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• agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pff sure. How hard can it be? Few resistor thingies and some capaci-whatsists, and Arduino, done.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The correct answer is usually Raspberry pi + github.

    Although I have no idea what those mean

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    • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can easily configure those with block-chain based AI.

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      • roi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t forget to setup the transistor receptors!

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• Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Almost any ARM SBC and a dumb TV will do, install linux/a minimal wayland compositor and waydroid and youre laughing

  Any time there’s a advancement you just update the board, instead of the whole TV (which its not like normal smart TV’s update their ports anyways?)

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