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Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked

Posted by Soulskill on from the let's-hope-so dept.

snydeq writes "With rising popularity of Internet-enabled TVs, the usual array of attacks and exploits will soon be coming to a screen near you. 'Will Internet TVs will be hacked as successfully as previous generations of digital devices? Of course they will. Nothing in a computer built into a TV makes it less attackable than a PC. ... Can we make Internet TVs more secure than regular computers? Yes. Will we? Probably not. We never do the right things proactively. Instead, we as a global society appear inclined to accept half-baked security solutions that are more like Band-Aids than real protection.'"

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  1. Heh by jeesis · · Score: 5, Funny

    No longer will I need a universal remote to screw with the neighbors television.

    1. Re:Heh by cyber-vandal · · Score: 4, Funny

      You insensitive clod!

  2. Barney by DarkXale · · Score: 2, Funny

    One day, our TVs shall be hacked, and they shall show nothing but that damned purple Dinosaur.

  3. Never gonna give you up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bonus points for the first ones to rickroll on every channel at once.

    And... go

  4. I have a challenge to all hackers out there by AuMatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ultimate TV hack, one that will make you the most infamous hacker in the US. Make it so that during the last quarter of the superbowl, the entire country gets rickrolled and are unable to return to the game. If it's a close game, wait til the very end (last year doing it on Brady's last drive would be perfect).

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    1. Re:I have a challenge to all hackers out there by Cornwallis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Playing "Heidi" might be more appropriate.

  5. Re:Can't hack what you don't have by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Funny
    Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkersâ"as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building..

    I gotta ask, do you have the same beard as the guy in the article?

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  6. Re:Shopping channels by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd care. Huge improvement. Have you seen the shit they throw out on Disney? You can at least expect a tolerable plot from Playboy.

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    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  7. Re:Dumb displays by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer my TV's to be dumb displays

    ... Like your women?

  8. Re:Think! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh hey, it's you:
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/

    Get off your high horse. There are plenty of good, informative shows for intelligent people to watch. And despite the popular meme, there actally are shows that are pretty well done. Not everything on TV is lowest-common-denominator crap.

  9. Re:Shopping channels by FaxeTheCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    FFS their Jan/Feb 2012 issue was of Lindsey Lohan, photoshopped to hell and back.

    And I thought photoshopping was used to to improve pictures...