alt Hacker NewsDon't love the scare title, but particularly don't love the inclusion of "Android TV," which has gone back-and-forth with "Google TV" as the brand name for Google's smart TV experience. (Even Wikipedia has a hard time following the chronology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(operating_system), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_TV#Google_TV_interface)
The title makes it sound like the TV you bought at Best Buy might be part of a botnet. The article is about some drop-shipped piracy-box.
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stronglikedan • yesterday at 8:36 PM
I know we're not supposed to make RTFA comments here on HN, but what about RTFT?!
The title qualifies "Android TV" with a "Streaming Box" right after. Lots of service providers supply such a box to subscribers (similarly to how ISPs provide all-in-one firewall-router-modems.) Even then these are extremely cheaply made, underpowered and largely unmaintained internet connected devices. And indeed you can purchase one such box yourself (including with piracy features as described here,) but I'd be surprised if the vast majority of these devices aren't supplied by the service providers.