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LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash
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Don't buy LG, noted. Also, maybe buying a dumb TV with great panel and then adding android fire stick that you can manage the way you want is the way all along?
Watch out for the android TV boxes. They are being used by China to backdoor into US critical infrastructure. Seriously.
This just barely covers the depth and scope of the issue. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-badbox-20-android-malware-infects-millions-of-consumer-devices/
I'm tired of being in the frontline trenches of a shadow cyber war, boss.
Good lord I feel ya. Volt typhoon has positioned itself to take out US critical infrastructure as soon as we push back on Taiwan. As one article put it, "the gun is loaded"...
I am Ralph wiggims on the bus and "I'm in danger"
No, don't even buy LG.
I bought a dumb LG panel for my bedroom and I had to buy black enamel paint to go over the status LED. When the panel it's off, the indicator LED it's BRIGHT. BLUE. BLINKING. And it's so powerful that I still see it because the light leaks from the small plastic vents. I also had to additionally insert a Shelly 1pm smart relay in the socket and program it with the logic "from 8pm to 8am if power usage is under 5 watts, cut the power; repeat the check every minute"
When the panel is on, instead, the status LED it's off 🤷🏻♂️
I can turn off the light in the menu on mine
Or just buy whatever smart panel and do the same. Might as well take the subsidy from the smart panel and just leave it off your network
Mine periodically displays a wi-fi not connected overlay if it's not connected.
Connect it to WiFi but dump it in a subnet that’s not allowed to send traffic out? That’s wild though.
I'll look into that. I was considering plugging in an old wifi router without a wan connection. Which should effectively be the same outcome.
That’s diabolical
Seems hard to find those types of displays. Some people bring up commercial displays but they are expensive and it seems like a lot of then do have smart features.