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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If it doesn't have the passphrase for wifi, how is it going to connect? I rarely see unsecured wifis around neighborhoods anymore. For copper/fiber, you're not going to hook it up to keep it disocnnected.

[–] ultramaven 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s not that simple.

Here’s an example: Amazon could outfit all of their delivery vehicles with open wifi networks. Every Alexa device calls home when a truck drives by.

Here’s another: you may have a guest wifi, or your neighbor, or their neighbor. All it needs is one.

Yeah of course there are solutions to faraday cage it away from the world. But all they need is one connection. You have to stop it forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Guest wifi does not mean it is unsecure, it is simply just another logical network. Sure amazon could equip their trucks with wifi I suppose and maybe some TVs would have good connection to update fast enough while a truck is there without a lot of tcp retransmits due to lack of efficient lack of penetration but that's not going effect all brands and surely it isn't something that is currently happening in a large effect.

You could talk about hypotheticals in the future sure but they aren't going to scan for these magical "network ports" that are just hanging around the ether. It needs to have a connection and one that is reasonable in quality and time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If it doesn't have the passphrase for wifi

Open networks have no passphrase. Otherwise they wouldn't be open. And yes they're less common but it doesn't mean you're neighbor can't set one up at any given time.