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Well that’s encouraging. Thank all the gods I only own dumb TVs
This is about the boxes you plug into the TV, like a Roku, or Fire TV, except it's the cheap Chinese white box rebranded Android TV boxes you buy on places likeAmazon, Ali, and eBay.
Ah, so it is. My bad
So basically a non-issue unless you just plug the cheapest streaming box you can get your hand on into your devices.
I didn't say they're the cheapest, just that the boxes I'm personally aware of with this problem are white box rebranded ATVs.
But I haven't looked through the entire list, so it's entirely possible that some other more well-known and "respectable" device brands are also compromised. If you have an Android TV box, you should probably search the list to find out.
They don't even run Android TV. They run a modified (normal) Android. This is well known, but the article also mentions it.
Isn't the article about tv boxes that you use with your dumb TV so you can watch streaming stuff on it? I don't think any TVs are affected
Seems like that’s true. My bad
Given that they are not certified by google its probably cheap chinese ones. Im pretty sure they are known to often contain malware out of the box
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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