Hello!

Regarding what Gamers Nexus recently disclosed regarding LG TVs in their latest video I think its finally time to do what I can to mitigate it.

I cant root it since the firmware is too new and I cant afford a new TV either. My best bet would be blocking all LG IPs network-wide and disconnecting it from the network. (Although I understand even that might not be enough, its the best I can do right now)

I was thinking of using an old Raspberry to atleast access youtube and my media server, however I dont know what would be a good OS/distro to run this on. Preferably I would want to use something like an old PS4 controller as the remote.

Anyone here who has any suggestions or living room setups to suggest? Any and all tips are welcome.

  • klankin@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Google’s just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.

    edit: not that that matters at all to apple spying on users - like them scanning all Iclouds openly wasn’t even that long ago

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Every cloud provider scans their storage, because the law is like that.

      People have gotten their MS accounts closed when Onedrive was still called Skydrive due to automated scans finding suspicious activity

      • klankin@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Damn, I forgot we all live in America - and so do all tech companies in the globe

        • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          The person in question was German. Microsoft found suspicious images on their Skydrive and shut down the whole MS account, Xbox and all.

          What was it? Pictures of his kids on the beach, which the puritan American algorithm determined as evil

          • klankin@piefed.caEnglish
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            14 hours ago

            I could be from alpha centuri for all it matters, storing your data in an american companies servers is still subject to american laws, that was kinda the whole point of the cloud act.

            A European company on the other hand isn’t subject to such laws, and is why many tech companies open up in France/Switzerland, they have laws to protect their citizens privacy instead of outlaw it.