Posted on 08/26/2021 12:23:11 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Then connect it to a computer/laptop as a monitor or put up an antenna.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
All TVs are made in China in the same factories, so they would all have this ability.
You no longer have to be schizophrenic to believe your TV is watching you.
Once upon a time, car radios were a hot item until technology stepped in and made them more difficult to reuse.
Bingo he knew the truth.
If Samsung can brick your TV, then a hacker can brick your TV,
No. I don’t.
But I don’t get all right-wing, knee-jerk reactionary and nuke the world from 50,000 feet up, either.
This isn’t all-or-nothing; few things are.
There are any number of longstanding either/or arguments that admit to a ready resolution of only the warring factions might admit to the actual answer being both/and.
The centuries war over The Sovereignty of God and The Free Will of Man offers an immediate example.
We can’t say we weren’t warned.
Dude, the government can brick your TV.
Exactly. “1984”
But it does have bluetooth and you probably carry your cellphone self-surveillance device around with you religiously.
And I don’t think it’s a coinkydink that the UK is getting rid of landlines in 5 years.
“But it does have bluetooth ...”
Yeah, not on. It’s got WiFi, but that’s also shut off ‘cuz it’s hard-wired to the home network.
BT on my phone is rarely on. Almost never, come to think of it...
Anyway, this aspect of the conversation is fairly far field from Samsung being able to break a TV remotely. I’d be more inclined to wonder whether a manufacturer might pre-program a device to malfunction after some pseudo random amount of time had gone by.
HP has been heavily scrutinized in this regard about their printer cartridges seemingly going bad with ink left in them. There was alleged to be some digital way that they expired basis date-related programming that didn’t rely on whether they still had ink or not.
I’ve an HP ENVY 5535 that just one fine day began locking up when I’d try to run the scanner. I go online and fund out this problem is widespread. Did HP build failure into them? Who can tell? I’d like to think not, but...
Tires have a date code on them, and are considered worn out by age 10 regardless of tread wear. Many shops will refuse to even rotate a set of 10 year old tires. You can connect that idea to observable facts about how rubber cracks as it ages, but is 10 years a good place to call ‘em done? Why not 15? Is making profit or avoiding liability the greater motivator, here?
At the day’s end, you can be suspicious of just about anyone. If you’re going to use a product, you just at some level have to accept the requirement that you’ve got to afford the manufacturer a degree of trust. If you won’t, then you probably have no business buying that product; all you’ll do is chafe over it, and be unhappy.
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