13 pointsby someonebaggy4 hours ago2 comments
  • eur0pa3 hours ago
    Steve and Wendell are treasures. Looking forward to the investigation and the findings. I live in the EU, I own a C2 that is not connected to the internet, and all LG and Alphonso endpoints are blackholed on the network, however I'd love to dumbify the TV further with some hardware intervention.
  • zuhsetaqi3 hours ago
    Is there such a thing as buying a smart TV and switching out the motherboard to get a dumb TV?
    • hilbert423 hours ago
      It would be nice if our smartest hackers would address the problem and hack these TV sets to our advantage.

      Seems to me we need to:

      (1) Reverse engineer/disassemble the code to find out exactly how they're stealing our data.

      (2) Hack the firmware to restore both our privacy and user-friendly functionality.

      (3) Send garbage/random noise back to LG and Samsung, et al to overwhelm their servers—and actually cost them money for collecting our data.

      Of course, this ought to be a temporary measure until our legislators listen to us and make what these manufacturers are doing strictly unlawful.