i was setting up postmaster on Linux Mint, and i saw that a lot of UDP requests were blocked from one local IP address. I found out the IP belonged to my parents Samsung smart TV. i loaded up wireshark and found out it is sending UDP requests with different port numbers per request. any ideas what is going on, and how i can stop it.

  • @ohlaph
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    71 year ago

    Disconnect it. But seriously, see if the router can block the requests.

    • ormr
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      51 year ago

      True, Smart TVs are basically spying devices.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    It’s rather frustrating I can’t just buy a dumb tv. The smart bit about a tv is going to be obsolete a decade before the screen anyways. How much effort is plugging in a Chromecast or something?