Funny enough it's the OS and manufacturer I don't trust with my phone, with my PC I trust them a lot more as they're much more open and I can choose the OS.
replyYou know what's stronger than a manufacturer's promise? 2cm of double-ply electrical tape.
replyFor reference, Samsung screenshots everything shown on their televisions at regular intervals and sends these to their South Korean data centres for advertisers to use. It's called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), which any sane country should be outright banning under international espionage laws.
replyI give no screen a network connection.
replyScreens are for playing what I send to them. Not for running their own apps or network traffic.
I would pay more for dumb screen TVs.
Absolutely. No monitor of any kind should be connected to the Internet.
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