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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by anonuser123456 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:40PM (#28292340)
You can't really avoid smart TVs these days. Any model that has a good picture quality will have a higher end chipset, and with that higher end chipset TV manufacturers are just rolling Android since they largely don't have to worry about the UI etc.

Technically, all you should have to do is not enable Wifi/Ethernet and you're good to go. But I wouldn't put it past Samsung to look for open APs or connected Samsung products and secretly funnel data via that channel.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by crackercrews on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:53PM (#28297879)
It would be trivial for them to cut a deal with Comcast to use their xfinity mobile base stations, for example. Frightening!

Coming soon: movie rooms housed inside faraday cages.

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Re:Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African w... by rainbowzootsuit on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:19PM (#28297066)
You could create a black hole wifi SSID or vlan to frustrate their efforts if this was discovered to be the case.
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