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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by ohazi on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:07PM (#21900514)
And then the next generation will have signed firmware that doesn't allow the device to start until the spy packets go out and the response is received.

We need to kill these companies and their business models. As fun as it is for smart people like us to perform one-off lobotomies, it doesn't solve the problem.

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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by heavyset_go on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21900550)
> And then the next generation will have signed firmware that doesn't allow the device to start until the spy packets go out and the response is received.

Some Chromecast products already won't function unless they can talk to Google DNS servers[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671

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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by BLKNSLVR on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:42PM (#21902649)
It's possible to redirect DNS requests to a server of your own choosing in order to get around this.

But the fact that doing so is severely limited to those with the technical knowledge and ability means it's still not a forgivable situation.

It also scares me as to what the future holds when such devices are hard coded with a DNS server using DoH.

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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by heavyset_go on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:46PM (#21902981)
> It's possible to redirect DNS requests to a server of your own choosing in order to get around this.

I've dug into this, and this is true for certain models and firmware versions, but not for others.

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