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The problem is researchers found out that lg tvs will scan available ssids and connect to any network available to deliver its payload back to LG, without your knowledge or consent
I have an offline LG TV and an open isolated guest network it could theoretically connect to. I check periodically and it has never attempted to do so.
Just an anecdote, but I personally have seen no evidence of this happening.
Insane
Sanity has left us all since, erm, about 2001? Might be off with that estimate, but definitely before 2007!
Do you have neighbors with a non password protected gateway or router to the open internet? Open unsecured networks seem so rare these days.
Some devices can create unadvertised networks, they might just go over a list of possible ids
what the hell
Mind pointing to that researcher's findings?
It was the gamers nexus report others are referencing, but apparently I misread from a secondary source. It seems it was inferred that that could be possible because the TV is logging all nearby networks via wifi and devices via bluetooth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA
At 1:01:16 for the network stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM
Looks like that one is only ~30 minutes
You’re right, wrong video
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/lg-tv-shown-capable-of-tracking-user-activity-even-when-offline/
Is this what you're talking about? It looks like it is speculation that they might connect to open wifi because they can, not any sort of reproduction or confirmation like the OP suggested
It's something that has been said for years now about smart TVs in general not just LG, but I haven't been able to find any conclusive evidence that it's happening... And obviously it can't be proven that it's NOT happening.
I don't disagree that it is a possibility it could start happening, but surely some security researcher would have reproduced it by now if it already was. The shit they are doing is bad enough that we don't need to muddy the water with lies.
Gamers' Nexus speculated on the ability to connect to the other SSIDs if memory serves, or did that ever get proven?
Not proven, but obviously that's possible for any device with Wi-Fi, and it has happened with many other "smart" devices before
Sounds like we need to have some fake point where it can drop its package into instead. Make the TV think it uploaded successfully but it just goes into a trash can.
Somehow this can work with some DNS tinkering.