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RHSeeger
on Dec 3, 2019
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FBI warns that connected televisions can provide h...
Smart TVs have been seen connecting to any open network automatically, like a neighbors.
lostgame
on Dec 3, 2019
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This is disgusting, if true. That should clearly be illegal. (Though every wifi network should have a password at this point...)
BlueTemplar
on Dec 3, 2019
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Why ? I would give open Internet access, if there wasn't a law that caused me to be liable for what other people that connected through it did...
TheCoelacanth
on Dec 3, 2019
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Trying to subvert the TV owner's wishes and exfiltrate the owner's private data even when they avoided connecting the TV to a network is what should be illegal. Not simply using an open wifi network.
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