TV phones home with your viewing habits, names of files you screen, even if you tell it not to

...

Damn =/ that's the world we live in... too bad =/

One question: would it be possible to control what data get sent to LG at the wireless router? (closing ports or something...?)

It would be a bit ridiculous, but yes you can run IPTables on the router and do netfiltering. You'd need to analyze the spyware and drop all packets from offending IPs and/or whitelist only the good IP addresses and block everything else. Obviously the latter would make surfing the internet useless.

You can also specifically block urls via dd-wrt, I assume LibreWRT may be able to do the same: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_Restrictions

On 04/12/13 01:13, dadix wrote:
> pc, mobile phone and now Tv is spying you:
>
> I found this story:
>
> http://boingboing.net/2013/11/19/lg-tv-phones-home-with-your-vi.html#more-269086

Very disturbing. It seems LG is catching up with TiVo, who has been
doing similar surveillance on TV viewers for over a decade:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-5154219.html

Andrew.

dadix said:
"pc, mobile phone and now Tv is spying you:"

And also cars
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-will-remotely-lock-down-electric-cars/