Comment on Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Check this video from Gamer's Nexus. They don't even need an ethernet cable, they can just install ads/malware directly through Windows Update.

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  • LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Windows update can install whatever the fuck it likes for all I care, I’m never using Windows again.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Windows installed that malware. The monitor has no way of installing anything on its own.

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    • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To be fair, that really took two parties, didn’t it? LG had to put the software in the update, and Microsoft had to wave it on through.

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  • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nobody forces you to install the LG app. Nobody forces you to use windows either…

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