Samsung will block TVs stolen in looting

[Jan]

Samsung TVs stolen in looting will be blocked

Samsung South Africa has implemented a TV blocking feature on sets stolen from its warehouse in Cato Ridge, Durban, during rampant looting in July.

 

[Dylan_G]

Samsung TVs stolen in looting will be blocked

Samsung South Africa has implemented a TV blocking feature on sets stolen from its warehouse in Cato Ridge, Durban, during rampant looting in July.

Link is broken.

 

[WAslayer]

Samsung TVs stolen in looting will be blocked

Samsung South Africa has implemented a TV blocking feature on sets stolen from its warehouse in Cato Ridge, Durban, during rampant looting in July.

Fix your link please..

 

[WAslayer]

http://samsung%20south%20africa%20has%20implemented%20a%20tv%20blocking%20feature%20on%20sets%20stolen%20from%20its%20warehouse%20in%20cato%20ridge%2C%20durban%2C%20during%20rampant%20looting%20in%20july./

 

[Grubscrew]

Link is broken.

they blocked hyperlinks on stolen devices also.

 

[ch@rge]

Question is, how many of the looted TV's will ultimately connect to the internet?

 

[gottagoon]

Yesssss .
Some great news.

 

[Lupus]

Question is, how many of the looted TV's will ultimately connect to the internet?

Probably about as many of them with valid TV licenses.

 

[We Love Bass]

So they can only block smart TV's? only when they connect to the internet,I think this feature is useless.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

firmware flashing and Pakistani shops say bring it on

 

[marine1]

Yeah because all the looters have uncapped fibre lol

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Yeah because all the looters have uncapped fibre lol

maybe they looted some ONT's?
or they finally want to watch netflix on a TV not on a tiny Phone screen. and connect their newly looted TV to the internet.

but then again, the Pakistani guys who reactivate stolen phones do this thing for a living.
how hard is it to do it for TV's?

 

[JustAsk]

and people worry about communist China.

Glad i don't buy Samsung clever tvs with backdoors.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Redirects samsung.com to 127.0.0.1

 

[JustAsk]

So they can only block smart TV's? only when they connect to the internet,I think this feature is useless.

Really? How else you think can they block it without the internet? Sending a magic command through the air to the tv serialno.?

Since they got the tv for free, the looter can just buy a tv box, if he wants to have smart features.

 

[Cray]

TVs manufactured for sale in this country need a self destruct feature...

 

[rubber_otter]

So they can only block smart TV's? only when they connect to the internet,I think this feature is useless.

Agreed. But it is the only way of achieving this.

 

[LCBXX]

Samsung should just have said nothing and proceeded. It's as dumb as the US government telling MSM that they're going to bomb their equipment left in Afghanistan.

 

[We Love Bass]

Really? How else you think can they block it without the internet? Sending a magic command through the air to the tv serialno.?

Since they got the tv for free, the looter can just buy a tv box, if he wants to have smart features.

Do you actually think the looters give a damn about the smart features?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Samsung should just have said nothing and proceeded. It's as dumb as the US government telling MSM that they're going to bomb their equipment left in Afghanistan.

legal nonsense prevented them from just doing it,
I'm sure smart TV's left in Afghanistan will also stop working soon enough, if some clever goat herder hasn't figured out a way to use it without internet.