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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by kstrauser on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:56PM (#16730095)
I temporarily set my SSID to some long random string and connected my TV to it. Then I turned off my TV's networking and changed the SSID back to normal. Even if my TV wanted to silently re-enable networking, it wouldn't have a network to connect to.
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by judge2020 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:39PM (#16730605)
Just wait till they start trying every wifi in range with the saved password!
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