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Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap

Posted by Unknown on from the should-have-stuck-to-xscreensaver dept.

jfruh (300774) writes Tech writer Tyler Hayes had never come close to hitting the 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap imposed by Cox Cable — until suddenly he was blowing right through it, eating up almost 80 GB a day. Using the Mac network utility little snitch, he eventually tracked down the culprit: a screensaver on his new Kindle Fire TV. A bug in the mosaic screensaver caused downloaded images to remain uncached.

3 of 349 comments (clear)

  1. Re: It's 2014 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only 10 GB? That's rough.

  2. Re:Expect this to happen more constantly by geekmux · · Score: 3, Funny

    with several home appliances going IP. And this was just a bug, not a worm/virus.

    You have a funny way of spelling feature...

  3. Re:It's 2014 by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    foam rubber bobbies

    Haha, you said -

    Oh, wait, you didn't. Sad face.

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