[zo1]

Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?

[rsync]

Why ? Because any general purpose computing device should be suspect, that's why.

Instead of a dumb monitor, purpose built for being a display, this is a general purpose computer with:

"On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM"

... that's a lot of complexity and capability. Too much to blindly trust.

In fact, the only correct answer to the question "what does it do on wireshark" is: "nothing, since it's not capable of a network connection".

[cincinnatus]

Don't be an ass. https://spideroak.com/privacypost/cloud-security/is-your-sma...

[zo1]

You could have just linked to the article in question, rather than calling me an "ass". But thanks.

[RobotCaleb]

Don't be intentionally obtuse, then. Ass is a bit ambiguous.

[zo1]

What on earth are you going on about?

What exactly was I obtuse about? And for that matter, what is ambiguous about calling me an "ass"? Especially in the tone the OP used it, which was as some sort of insult because he disagreed with my opinion.

[freehunter]

It's not unheard of for smart TVs to snoop on you. LG did it.

[blueskin_]

>Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company?

No. I'm implying it might because it's a 'smart' device. All sorts of American/British/Western European 'smart' devices are horrendously insecure too. Also, in the case of china, for example huawei, the government/manufacturer collusion goes far deeper than in the west; i.e. the surveillance portion is installed in the factory rather than later via exploits.

[pekk]

Since the NSA scandals started, people on HN do imply exactly this about American hardware. And say that American service providers are guaranteed to spy on them and such.

[blueskin_]

Not just American. I'm suspicious of any random household device that has general purpose computing capabilities, especially when internet-connected and not local-user accessible and rootable.