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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by blame_lewis on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:04AM (#24670202)
There are IoT SIMs available on most major carriers, which are intended for economical occasional low-data usage on large numbers of devices. They're popular in GPSes among other things.

5G is looking to reduce the cost of them further as LPWA is a key part of the standard.

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by avh02 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:19AM (#24671878)
maybe one way to fight this is by finding a way to abuse these SIMs/connections to use a lot of data en masse until they get cut off or dropped altogether.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by blame_lewis on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:30AM (#24677306)
They can easily be remotely disabled if there's any suspicious activity, ie to any other server than the telemetry backend.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by avh02 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:52AM (#24679464)
Exactly what I meant, and then you use their own SIM to DoS or DDoS them until they or their network provider disconnect the service.
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