Looks like my Samsung smart TV is probing my home network

3 years ago by batvin123 to c/sysadmin

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 8 points 3 years ago

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

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runblack 6 points 3 years ago

True, Smart TVs are basically spying devices.

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VelociCatTurd 3 points 3 years ago
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Boomkop3 2 points 3 years 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?

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JonnyJaap 1 point 3 years ago
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