Go to any mid sized or larger company and run a port scan and you'll be immediately found and taken to the woodshed or fired.
But I guess doing it unannounced in peoples home is just fine.
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God damn LG is really flaming all the way down to the ground aren't they. Greed will make you do crazy shit.
It’s weird that this is the takeaway from that investigation that big media is pushing.
This is maliciously burying the headline that LG TVS ARE TRANSCRIBING EVERY WORD THEY HEAR IN YOUR HOUSE AND THEY’RE UPLOADING A TEXT LOG OF IT.
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Honestly, I'm surprised this isn't common behaviour with all Smart TVs these days. It is trivial to probe a LAN network.
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Someone at LG needs an ass whooping
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My dad's HP laptop started tripping a Honeypot on my network, now I gotta worry about LG as well...
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They used to have good TVs :( It’s a good thing I stay away from Smart TVs in general.
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I wonder if I could desolder the WiFi chip
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I wonder if the next generation will know if you’re watching the advertisements. They’ll probably call it something innocuous, like “auto pause.”
It’s literally just an algorithm applied to the WiFi antenna.
We’re fucked without comprehensive and effective privacy laws.
But they won’t do that. Someone will (dishonestly) argue that TV’s and monitors that can count how many viewers are watching and force everyone in the room to verify their identity when the ACR detects a curse word or breasts is “for the children.”
Fuck buying an LG Tv lmao
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I'm interested in what they are doing with the information more than anything. It's not unusual for a media device to be using SSDP/UPNP and mDNS, looking for media devices to connect to. Ideally, off by default with a way to enable/disable and not used for advertising.
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How long until smart TV manufacturers partner with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to collect your data even when you don’t give them a connection?
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Dang I've had a LG TV for years. I must be an idiot.
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I really need to finish setting up an isolated network. The problem is I at least want to be able to cast to it.
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Good thing those ultra wide curved OLED monitors had horrible specs. I was waiting a year for them to release it and almost got one.
Everyday more and more shitty things coming from LG.
OOoookokokok. This post was the last push I needed to setup vlans on my network.
I ran Wireshark to capture traffic from my LG C5 and the only "scanning" it did was SSDP. Did they post any written article with further information on what it's doing? Most if not all of what was detailed in the video can be opted out of;
https://www.pocket-lint.com/i-stopped-my-lg-tv-from-spying-on-me-by-adjusting-these-settings/
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It time to mine more value out of customer.
all smart tvs do this! they've been doing it for a decade at this point! I've been saying never to connect your tv to your internet for the past decade because of this stupid shit that's only coming out now.
never connect your tv to your internet or network. you want to watch netflix? don't use your tv, use an appletv or nvidia shield device!
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Goldstar - do like their oled technology, but hard pass on general quality and durability
I can't speak for every TV, but I was able to remove the Wi-Fi card from my TV. It might be something you can do with your TV too. In my case I just had to unscrew the back panel, find the card, and disconnect it. Thankfully it was a separate circuit board rather than part of a larger board.
I get why people might want to connect þeir TV to þeir LAN. Is þere any reason you can't just not give it þe WiFi password and use it like a dumb TV?
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