[LINK] LG Smart TVs send filenames from USB drives!

[Jim Birch]

You are actually better off getting a dumb tv and add a media box pc that
you manage yourself and run anything you like.  Apart from the minor issue
of them spying on you, smart tvs suffer the usual problems of embedded
hardware, not expandable, not enough memory, no disk, nonstandard, one size
fits all applications, etc.

Something like this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/09/the-2013-htpc-build.html

- Jim




On 20 November 2013 14:47, Rick Welykochy <rick at vitendo.ca> wrote:

> Andy Farkas wrote:
>
> > No wonder I don't own a smart TV yet:
> >
> >    <
> http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html
> >
> >
> > "At this point, I decided to do some traffic analysis to see what
> > was being sent.  It turns out that viewing information appears to
> > be being sent regardless of whether this option ["Collection of
> > watching info"] is set to On or Off."
>
> Easy solution: disable networking on the TV.
>
> Also, probably best to disable DHCP on your router and/or wireless
> unit. This stops these damn things from connecting automatically.
>
> Static IPs are the safest way to go.
>
> Of course, the trade-off is either more security or more convenience.
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
>
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