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Originally Posted by Stuart
I think Smart TVs would only really be of any use if you wanted to spy on the owners (most seem to have webcams and microphones now), you wanted to send out a lot of spam, to sniff out (and infect) computers with ports open that may be blocked by the router's firewall or to act as very slow bitcoin miners.
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Looks like any internet connected tv, smart or not, can be abused for DDoS or other uses en-mass via the Hybrid Broadband protocol standard most new tv's have implemented. It's basically like HTML for the tv that does the red button type graphic displays and such. Cheap bit of radio transmitting hardware attached to your latop lets you broadcast your malicious code to all the tv's in the surrounding area. An interesting read:
From the Aether to the Ethernet –
Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television