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I bought a $3k+ LG OLED. I intentionally never agreed to any TOS so that it would act as a dumb TV. I wanted it on the network so that I could control it through Home Assistant and Apple HomeKit so I put it in my IoT VLAN. Within a day it was trying to port scan my network! It is now fully isolated with no outgoing connections allowed.
The “smart” LGTV experience is utter trash. I was very pissed off to see adverts on my Home Screen when I put it online. It’s since been taken off and an Apple TV now provides the streaming services.
Samsung isn’t any better. Bloated as hell too and I expect 0 privacy using it.
I have a 2017 era Samsung TV. I use it to connect to a media server that my router runs if I plug in a USB drive. This just worked so I assumed it was an open unauthenticated service.
Then to tried to use VLC running on my phone to connect and I presented with a login screen. When I investigated further I found the router’s media server defaulted to using the the router’s admin credentials.
So it looks like the TV had been programmed to try common default router admin creds before showing a login prompt to the user as a “convenience”.
That’s good UX, the real fuckup is using default admin credentials om your router.
Im safe.
I changed u:admin p:admin to u:root p:service
I wasn’t too concerned previously as my routers are only exposing their services to the local network.
I understand the view that it’s a superior UX but I was taken aback that it was guessing passwords for other devices on the network.