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vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

arstechnica.com

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LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices

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vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours ago
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  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • galbraith@lemmy.world
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      What about the larger companies with LG tvs in their offices?

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    I wonder if I could desolder the WiFi chip

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    Someone at LG needs an ass whooping

  • Scott@sh.itjust.works
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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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      I need to learn how to do this

  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
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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.

  • SnowMeowXP@lemmy.world
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    They used to have good TVs :( It’s a good thing I stay away from Smart TVs in general.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      Exactly, I’m very disappointed. I bought and LG OLED in 2019, loved it for the image quality and smooth UI. It’s time for an upgrade soon, and I was thinking LG, but will probably have to go diff direction.

    • DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world
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      I found it to be a struggle to find a non-smart TV that was decent…

  • hahattpro@lemmy.world
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    It time to mine more value out of customer.

  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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/

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      Why should we have to opt out of our devices spying on our LAN?

      • duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml
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        Of course youre right, but we have to opt out of tracking at every level today. Thats the way we collectively allowed the goalpost to be moved.

        Now, do they respect the opt out? Thats the real question

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      I love how this is showing you an ad for a LG tv at the end of the article. Priceless.

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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      https://thecybersecguru.com/news/lg-smart-tv-spying-investigation/

      There are roughly 216 million LG smart TVs in homes, hospitals, offices, and hotels worldwide. Each one maps its local network, fingerprints its content, and logs audio, on or off, whether you’re talking to it or to someone else, whether you’re online or not, and feeds that into an ad engine that sells access to your living room.

      They do a lot more than just scan the network.

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