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Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 hours ago by yxc999@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Or just don't connect your TV?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 18 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

To the WiFi?

You are often forced to in order to set it up at all, the damage is already done if you disconnect it or VLAN quarantine it after that.

It doesn't stop the TV from spying on you. GN just proved that it runs STT and records your conversations in plaintext and has the memory to store them for eternity. It also gets your location from scanning WiFi, Bluetooth, and any other devices in the band and geolocating based off of their data.

Then if you ever sell the TV, it will dump the data if they connect it, or somebody with the same brand smart TV moved in next door, it will use that TV's hidden SSID hotspot to jump the airgap and dump all if its (likely time and position stamped) transcribed spying data to the servers.

Hardware fix is literally the only fix.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

Can you help me understand why i got downvotes for posting the following comment in this very same community 2 days ago?

I am not saying the following happens, i think there is no proof it happens, but its technically doable.

They are capable of scanning for local networks and bluetooth devices which can be used to identify a location. (This part they definitely do)

If your neighbour has an lg tv, or the presence of the tv is extracted through your phone. Then they know where it is and they also know of any open/public wifi networks around.

The researchers from gamers nexus can connect to 2 (ssid) networks at once for some reason.

In theory a neighbours lg tv could ~~broadcast their wifi credentials to your tv to~~ connect to upload the data.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 59 minutes ago

Damn I was not aware of that.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And hope no open networks are in range, ever. Or it will exfiltrate collected data.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 hour ago

Or another TV of the same manufacturer that has Internet access.

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why not both?

[–] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Because one is unnecessary of you do the other?

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Out of fucking principle, yes it's not connected, but I won't tolerate a mic in my remote. Besides, you have heard of them being able to use your neighbour's unsafe WIFI if you have to act so smart, right?