so once again "technology" is ****ing us over.. we aren't moving forward at all... Much harder to get scammed when you have to walk into a business in person to do your dealings.
Speaking of this, I was watching TV tonight when I get a message on the screen... "Samsung J1 (2016) wants to connect to your TV"
Not really a big deal I thought at first, just the neighbour having a play with his phone and found my TV pop up on his TV-phone mirror app. But then I remembered the show I watched last night about this bloke who examines all the exploits possible through wifi connected things. He connected to a wifi connected kettle (yeah, why would you need that), and fair enough, all he could do to it was turn it on. But, the other very handy thing he could find out, via the connection, was the un-encrypted passkey to the wifi network it was connected to. That opens up a lot of possibilities for a smart crook.
As for my TV (Samsung 6000 series), you can't switch off the direct wifi connection facility, you can only deny connection for each device that tries to connect. TV has no camera or mike, which was what the big concern was when it was found out you could hack into Samsung TVs, but I wonder how secure your network details and login and password (required for ABC? catchup TV) are?
