Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.

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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, could a pihole perhaps help protect against some of the telemetry that these TVs have? I'm not very familiar with this sort of stuff other than being very aware it's happening and I want to learn more, but what even is this? Networking? Cybersecurity? Programming??

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Yes, for lg at least

    ||snu.lge.com^ ||su.lge.com^ ||su-ssl.lge.com^ ||snu-dev.lge.com^ ||su-dev.lge.com^ ||nsu.lge.com^ ||alphonso.tv^ ||aic-ngfts.lge.com^ ||ngfts.lge.com^ ||lgsmartad.com^ ||us.ad.lgsmartad.com^ ||us.info.lgsmartad.com^ ||lgad.cjpowercast.com.edgesuite.net^ ||ad.lgappstv.com^ ||ibis.lgappstv.com^ ||us.ibs.lgappstv.com^ ||yumenetworks.com^ ||smartclip.com^ ||smartclip.net^ ||cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com^ ||cdpsvc.lgtvcommon.com^ ||homeprv.lgtvcommon.com^ ||nudge.lgtvcommon.com^ ||rdl.lgtvcommon.com^ ||recommend.lgtvcommon.com^ ||service.lgtvcommon.com^ ||lgtvsdp.com^ ||lgsmartplatform.com^ ||smartshare.lgtvsdp.com^ ||us.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com^

    (Formatted for adguard)

    This blocks lg ad servers, telemetry, software updates. If you have an lg tv and connect it to the internet though you should also root it and install the package that blocks telemetry services on the tv as well. Or just don’t connect your tv to the internet

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I have a Samsung TV, albeit an older one. When I was looking into setting up pihole I had read that other users had a really hard time with Samsung TVs because apparently if the TV doesn’t receive a response from their servers, then it looks it up using a secondary, then tertiary DNS. So in order to block all the traffic you need to set up multiple pihole instances. Since I didn’t want to go through that hassle I ended up setting up just a single pihole and disconnecting the TV from my network. I used an old gaming pc plugged into it as a media center instead.

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