We notified TiVo of the problems in March, and the company quickly agreed to fix the problem. “The weakness identified by Consumer Reports, attributable to a third-party application’s transmission of certain data, has now been addressed,” a TiVo spokesperson said via email.
“We are taking this opportunity to proactively review device activity with our other partners and determine if similar weaknesses exist, and will correspondingly address any new issues which might arise from that investigation,” the spokesperson said.
We decided to check the TiVo Edge DVR for the same problem, and found that it, too, was sending out unencrypted data. However, the information didn’t include user data such as IP addresses, and we don’t judge it to be a risk to consumers.
TiVo issued a software patch for the Stream 4K player soon after we notified the company, but our testing showed that it didn’t remedy the problem. However, Consumer Reports’ testing confirmed that a second update pushed at the end of March did correct it. The device is no longer sending out unencrypted data.
The good news is that if you own a TiVo Stream 4K player, you don’t need to do anything. The company says that a new version of the software is already available and has been pushed out as an update to all TiVo Stream 4K users.
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