I'm interested in what they are doing with the information more than anything. It's not unusual for a media device to be using SSDP/UPNP and mDNS, looking for media devices to connect to. Ideally, off by default with a way to enable/disable and not used for advertising.
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On that note, does anybody know a good set top box with DolbyVision support that doesn’t require Amazon or Google services?
Because the only one that comes to my mind would be an AppleTV and I don’t want to believe that’s the least terrible option…
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.
What about the larger companies with LG tvs in their offices?
You wouldn't add them to the network. HDMI to the conf room table or a dedicated phone controller. Maybe an HDMI matrix.
Forget the TV calling home for advertisement info, i'm worried about holes in their screen mirroring and microphone that would let people snoop from the floors above/below me. If we need smart features, we tie them to either real media hardware, or plug them to a small computer.
Media bullshit at work gets its own isolation VLAN.
If they were serious enough to buy serious equipment, I wouldn't have to do it. I'd still do it, but I wouldn't have to.
VLAN? Why would you let a monitor have a network connection? Grab the Mac address, and put it on a denylist so you don't accidentally give it an IP address as part of your setup procedure.
smart boards, remote power off. I generally prefer (as I mentioned in other comments) to run them from PCs or an HDMI matrix, but I've had reasons to network-connect some here and there.
I wonder if I could desolder the WiFi chip
My dad's HP laptop started tripping a Honeypot on my network, now I gotta worry about LG as well...
I need to learn how to do this
Someone at LG needs an ass whooping
God damn LG is really flaming all the way down to the ground aren't they. Greed will make you do crazy shit.
Good thing those ultra wide curved OLED monitors had horrible specs. I was waiting a year for them to release it and almost got one.
Everyday more and more shitty things coming from LG.
Honestly, I'm surprised this isn't common behaviour with all Smart TVs these days. It is trivial to probe a LAN network.
It is common behavior for a lot of consumer IoT devices. If it goes on your network and you don't control the software, you should consider it compromised. Even if the manufacturer isn't doing outright malicious stuff, it likely isn't secured very well (they never are) so there's every chance that someone else could find it and use it as a platform for malicious activity.
Only if you give it access
I have a dedicated IOT ssid and vlan (when my Orbi goes, I don't know what I'll replace it with...).
Each wifi node on that ssid is in client isolation mode and I carefully monitor where outbound traffic from that segment is headed.
It's a lot of work, but it makes me feel slightly better about a thermostat, self-hosted security camera setup, and home assistant setup.
They used to have good TVs :( It’s a good thing I stay away from Smart TVs in general.
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.
I found it to be a struggle to find a non-smart TV that was decent...
Aren't all TVs non-smart if you do not connect it to the internet?
No they will still collect data that they can
But if they don't ever get access to the internet, they can collect all the data they want? Unless they connect to nearby unsecured wifi and use that to connect to their server.
Dang I've had a LG TV for years. I must be an idiot.
I really need to finish setting up an isolated network. The problem is I at least want to be able to cast to it.
That’s my thought on TVs that support casting (so it is probably a smart tv).
I have an old chromecast connected to my parents’ normal tv to avoid smart tvs and possible shenanigans
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/
Why should we have to opt out of our devices spying on our LAN?
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
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.
I love how this is showing you an ad for a LG tv at the end of the article. Priceless.
Goldstar - do like their oled technology, but hard pass on general quality and durability
It time to mine more value out of customer.