RE: Can any Trisquelers help me? What do I do? We have two LG Smart TV's and
a Panasonic Smart Viera.
You can do a number of things.
- At the router level you can find out which hosts it is connecting to (via
e.g. WireShark) and blackhole those domains.
Tom's Hardware provides an example for LG TV's:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lg-smart-tv-hdtv-doctorbeet-privacy,25156.html
TODO: Someone needs to make a list of these domains and IP addresses for all
SmartTV brands for blacklisting purposes
- You can put tape over the camera which is on several Smart TV's. Or support
FSF/EFF and buy some nice stickers to cover it up.
- You can go into settings and disable the "Smart" features. (Note: As the
code is not open it is quite possible disabling doesn't always do what it
claims to do. As the guy found with LG, disabling it didn't prevent it from
connecting to the internet)
Samsung settings menu:
http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/samsung-smart-tv-spying/
Quote: Head to the Settings menu and select Smart Features. Then scroll down
to Voice Recognition and switch it off. While you will no longer be able to
use the "Hi TV" command to activate the voice features, you can still access
them by pressing the
- You could physically remove the camera and microphone
- You can try to write free firmware for SmartTV's but, there is a fight over
DMCA and this as we speak...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/10/samsung_s_smarttv_disabling_its_eavesdropping_could_violate_dmca.html
- Inside the firmware of a Samsung SmartTV:
http://kingofdkingz99.blogspot.com/2013/05/firmware-hacking-samsung-smart-tv-turn.html
