So if I’m using a Samsung TV as a monitor and working on sensitive or classified material the damn thing is taking screenshots and uploading them? Yikes
It's funny, but I bought a dell monitor and I downloaded the manuals.
One of them was an unexpected white paper, which contained
this statement:
Statement of Volatility – Dell U3219Q Monitor
The purpose of this document is to certify that the Dell
U3219Q monitor will not save, retain, or reproduce a signal
to any internal or external component after power has been
removed and reapplied to the unit.
The Dell U3219Q monitor contains both volatile and
non-volatile (NV) memory ICs. Volatile memory(s) lose their
data immediately upon removal of power. Non-volatile memory
ICs continue to retain their data even after the power has
been removed. However, no input video data is written into
these memory ICs during operation.
List below contains volatile and non volatile memory ICs
used in the Dell U3219Q monitor."
Then it had a table for each storage chip within the monitor
with its purpose and characteristics including:
- system eeprom
- hdmi edid eeprom
- system flash rom
- usb hub eeprom
- pd controller flash rom
"How to desolder power from your built in 5G network adapter"
I give it 20 years before we have to root our TV's to disable tracking while keeping it functional - and that might be optimistic - the industry could get there in under 10 if they tried hard.
Hypothetically because I’d be using it as a monitor part time and using the built in shit the other part of the time? In actuality I do as you suggest and don’t ever connect the thing to the internet. Operation Weeping Angel was enough to convince me of that.
One of them was an unexpected white paper, which contained this statement:
Then it had a table for each storage chip within the monitor with its purpose and characteristics including: