Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.
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That's accurate. But you're going to have the mac address of every laptop, tv, phone, light bulb, toaster, microwave, and corporate access point.
EVERYTHING sweeps the network.
And most of them are going to hit some form of beacon to see if the connection is even online. They're not just going to blindly call snarfingallyourprivatedataoversomeotherunsecurednetwork.samsung.com
They might even call some base telemetry on samsung.com to identify the network as open to your internet connection wizard, ESPECIALLY if they're not connect. right?
The best option is what the subject of the post is about and just tear down the firmware and see what it does. This is happening now and is the best answer.
the second best option is to give it real open access and see what it does with it. If you start seeing telemetry that's a strong indicator. That said, if you leave it over for long periods of time, there's a chance that someone will eventaully tell their tv to go ahead and use that open access point. at which point your checks of does it do it on it's own are questionable.
Let the leet crew tear it apart; trust what they find.