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Probably not, but you don't need to give it your wifi password.

Discussion of this on reddit leads me to believe that at least some Samsung TVs would connect to any available open wifi networks.

I purposefully didn't give my Sony tv (android) my wifi password. A few weeks later it prompted me to install a firmware update, and I saw it was connected to my home wifi. How? Best I can guess is another android device shared credentials with the TV.

I blocked that stupid thing at the router. I don't need firmware updates for my TV.

Is there anyone else in your house who might have put in the credentials? That seems like a big security hole if Android will just share wifi credentials with other random Android devices.

Why would you have open networks? Anyone can monitor their traffic.

I can't exactly control my neighbors.

Right. The only thing I've ever done using my Sony smart TV's native interface is to go into settings and turn off WiFi. It isn't a dumb TV, but might as well be.

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