2+2=5?

Post #432,861 by scoenye 3/3/20 6:59:58 PM 3/3/20 6:59:58 PM Reply	2+2=5? Some things there just don't add up. HDMI is a digital AV cable. It has nothing to do with internet/network access. VPN can be used to securely connect LANs across the internet, or to obscure one's origin, but neither helps with the snooping TV. The thing will still connect to whatever server is programmed into it. (And the same applies if the TV is used as a browser. If it is sending that traffic to its mfg, a VPN will not make any difference.) An outgoing filter on the network may (if possible to figure out the services it talks to, those comms can be blocked,) but then it may just decide to go off and sulk. And VPNs are a can of worms all their own. She may find she's still the product, only to a different set of predators.
Post #432,864 by Ashton 3/3/20 8:49:11 PM 3/3/20 9:50:46 PM Reply	GIG0, I guess.. She may have inferred "what she had plugged in", and I didn't offhand see the er, non-'connection'--bad dope. As to my abscence of peeping anything at all of such snoop messages as D. reported, my Arris™ Surfboard modem to cable {ugh-Comcast} may?/must?/may-not have given their addy to my TV--but its use is as a mere TV-receiver; ia port on a sub-box from Comcast sends the RF-signal to TV, a separate multi-pin cable port --> iMac. ie no use of TV as a 'browser' evah. tl;dr: never received any Vizio Setup message, so if it has Comcast data, it has yet to demonstrate anything: which I see doesn't mean that it doesn't harvest data to a fare-thee-well, but keeps silent. {{sigh}} Poor Winston Smith--he tried to warn us, but NOOO.. Edited by Ashton March 3, 2020, 09:50:46 PM EST Expand All History
Post #432,876 by Ashton 3/4/20 6:21:49 PM 3/4/20 6:21:49 PM Reply	Thanks. Again. for your pithy al-punte summary. Passed on (for her to pass-on to local 'Pro-I hope'). IF she cannot do without 'WiFi enabled' and her browser-use depends on TV (as I think it does) ... ..glad it's beyond my Pay-grade :-) (I merely hope that: my unwillingness to do-WiFi ackshully has disabled the means-to-snoop [???] of this idiot-Smart/otherwise acceptable Tee Vee-thing). And people call ours: a 'Civilization'. (Moi calls it, Dachau-light).

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