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Looks like my Samsung smart TV is probing my home network (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] ohlaph 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

True, Smart TVs are basically spying devices.