Samsung says it can remotely brick any of its TVs

The Next Web
By Thomas MacaulayAug 25, 2021, 3:34 pm191 pts
Samsung has unveiled a new way of combatting TV theft: a system that can remotely brick the company’s televisions. The firm says the tech was activated on TVs that were looted from a warehouse in South Africa amid the worst unrest in the country since apartheid. The South Korean tech giant added that the…

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