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It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you (www.theverge.com)
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Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah nah mate they worked that one out years ago. Shit scans for adhoc/unsecured, or uses a low level local mesh until they hit one that does have internet

[–] adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I believe that's possible but I just don't think it's worth it when 99.9% of normies are going to type in their wifi credentials. You have a source of this actually being implemented?

[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

After turning off the wifi setting on my 2022ish Samsung TV, no attempts to connect to wifi. I don't have a password, but it doesn't appear to have connected to my wifi.

I also live in the woods and there's no neighbor wifi or anything.

That said, before I turned wifi off, the TV was CONSTANTLY sending data to the mothership.