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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Zanz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you even get an actual Android TV device now that isn't a Chromecast or an Nvidia shield? Other than a few TVs that mostly come with malware (tcl, Sony, Hisense) I can't think of anything else that has actual Android TV you can buy as a consumer.

[โ€“] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Xiaomi makes one, also Walmart carries one called Onn.