Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap

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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:34AM from the should-have-stuck-to-xscreensaver dept.

jfruh (300774) writes Tech writer Tyler Hayes had never come close to hitting the 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap imposed by Cox Cable — until suddenly he was blowing right through it, eating up almost 80 GB a day. Using the Mac network utility little snitch, he eventually tracked down the culprit: a screensaver on his new Kindle Fire TV. A bug in the mosaic screensaver caused downloaded images to remain uncached.

Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap

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Re: It's 2014 (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:56AM (#47368127)

Only 10 GB? That's rough.

Re:Expect this to happen more constantly (Score:4, Funny)

by geekmux ( 1040042 ) writes: on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:29AM (#47368961)

with several home appliances going IP. And this was just a bug, not a worm/virus.
You have a funny way of spelling feature...

Re:It's 2014 (Score:4, Funny)

by wonkey_monkey ( 2592601 ) writes: on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @03:15PM (#47371161) Homepage

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Haha, you said -
Oh, wait, you didn't. Sad face.

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