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Re:Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same netw... by Triesault on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:46PM (#21561311)
It sounds like the affected Roku doesn't sanitize the bluetooth input and/or incorrectly trusts a bluetooth connection with a certain formatting. Yikes.
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Re:Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same netw... by DeadBabyOrgasm on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:45AM (#21565766)
Yes, but it's also ridiculous to have the Switch spam IPs in the space like that. Boo on both of them.
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Re:Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same netw... by monocasa on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#21567608)
Broadcast for service discovery is totally fine.
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