Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by darklajid on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:40PM
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Maybe, yes. Potential issues: You probably need to repeat the 'firmware reset, connect again' step a couple of times (like the author in the post required multiple tries). There might be uncaught requests that, for example, update the full thing.
My current best bet would be [1]. But so far I'm using a Pi, with xbmc. There's no way the TV stuff can improve on that.
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by njbooher on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:21PM
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Funny you should mention XBMC. I had almost exactly the same issue as the one described here with an older version of it 6 months ago.
Old writeup: https://gist.github.com/njbooher/cedd5a49895d3d664474#file-g...
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by differentView on Sunday April 20, 2014 @01:05PM
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What percentage of the population do you think can do that?
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by pdonis on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:09PM
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Probably about the same percentage that could do what the author of the original article did.
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by truongmt on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:29PM
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your suggestion implies that the system is built rationally and to a standard. Who's to say something in that config file isnt used as a hardcoded setting somewhere in the code?
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by pdonis on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:08PM
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You might be able to spoof the DNS to the TV without changing anything on the TV. However, it's quite possible that the code inside the TV is sufficiently insane that what I suggested would not be possible, even if you spoofed DNS externally; that's why I was wondering if anyone had tried experimenting.
Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
by FragleRock on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:37PM
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So much convenience!
But if the OP article is correct, you can prevent the TV from phoning home in the first place by spoofing the other way -- say, configuring the DNS that the TV sees to automatically return "no answer" for www.samsung.com. The question is, will the TV still see your local network? If so, you can stream to it from a DLNA server, as someone else upthread pointed out.