Check your neighbor's WiFi hotspot, too

Posted Apr 14, 2021 14:53 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Check your neighbor's WiFi hotspot, too by oldtomas
Parent article: The uninvited Internet of things

Every smart TV I've ever seen offers you an onscreen list of WiFi APs, and asks you to choose yours from the list. If it needs a PSK or similar, it then gives you a way to fill that in via the remote.

In practice, I suspect the "smart TVs that connect to a neighbour's AP" have never done that autonomously - instead, someone else with physical access has been prompted to connect to WiFi, and has chosen the open AP instead of the owner's AP.