"I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder."

Tech people, THIS IS A GREAT FANTASIC READ!!!

The title is, "DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S"

https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t
#Tech #Android #TV #Debug

@davemark wow. TV DDOSs PC. This sounds like a vulnerability in PnP. Completely insane.

@pixel 💯

And the write up was fascinating and entertaining.

@Lizette603_23 I’m guessing this is a bug, and not malicious. Thinking it’s specific to the HiSense branch of Android and not an issue with Samsung. I could be wrong of course. What I know is what I got from the article.

@Lizette603_23 😜

@davemark

Whoa. Please, everyone, put all of your IoT devices on a separate network than your secured devices. All IoT devices need to be considered as unsecured backdoors into your network.

@ashhobbit @davemark yup. Came here to talk about this.

It’s sad that the default way common things are sold today (like TVs) require fairly sophisticated knowledge of networking. My family wouldn’t figure out the solution nor the preventative measures in a million years. They would just give up.

@linux_mclinuxface @ashhobbit @davemark Won’t that cause problems controlling devices from a different network/the one our laptops use for example?

@tomk @linux_mclinuxface @davemark

It depends on the device. Some devices can be controlled from a different network (my TP-Link smart switches and outlets can do this). Other devices can only be controlled from the same network (my soundbar is this way).

If you have to connect to an IoT device on the same network, switch your controlling device over to the IoT network and switch back to your secured network when you're done.

@davemark TVs are the new HP printers

@hnapel TIL

@davemark @chris See, THIS is why I don’t own a TV. 👴🏻 (squats stark naked in front of gramophone)

(Edit: kidding, of course. I own three Hisense TVs and multiple windows boxes and none of them are experiencing any issues whatsoever.)

Edit2: followed the process anyway. I had about 50 dafuqpnp entries, elevated RegistryWorkshop as SYSTEM user, deleted all of them in a couple of clicks just for the heck of it. Sure won’t stop me recommending Hisense TVs.

@davemark talk about timing. Guess which brand of tv I ordered yesterday. Facepalm. Thanks for this.

@MortonRobD i’d say the timing was perfect. Now you know to not connect the TV to the Internet. At least until you do some reading on best practices. Some fantastic responses to the post. I don’t know enough to even make a suggestion as to what to do here, but read the responses. You’ll see there are some very smart people in this thread.

@MortonRobD @davemark Not sure that brand alone is at play here. I’ve had several Hisense Roku TVs and have had no issues - but then again, I have no Windows PCs on my networks either …

So it probably is an issue only if you have Windows computers on your network *and* you have a Hisense Android TV possibly?

I can’t say for sure but all I can tell you is that if you have a network for Mac computers and iOS devices and have a Hisense Roku TV, it works fine … or at least, has for me in multiple countries with multiple Hisense TVs 🙂

@f @MortonRobD Cheers, Fahim. 😃

@davemark Holy shoot. This is only one digit away from the model number of my tv, but luckily for me I disconnected it from our network entirely shortly after buying it. It receives power and HDMI only. Thanks for posting!

@tartley Cheers!

@davemark Reminds me of the time a mouse driver DOSed me by creating so many files it consumed 90%+ CPU on an otherwise idle system https://reedmideke.github.io/debugging/2021/04/26/adventures-in-crapware-1.html

@davemark That's also the moral of the story.