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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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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what i'm hearing is I should spin up an open ssid and black hole the traffic

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Put a drill to the wifi chip – it's the only way to be sure.™

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I mean it won't hurt. I don't think there's any evidence they do it, though, and if they did, they'd probably try every network they could until they found a way out.