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Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads (www.tomshardware.com)

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A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

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[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recall reading that some SmartTVs will attempt to connect to open wireless networks, fully in the background, to set up a connection for delivering telemetry and downloading ads.

If that's accurate, then any neighbour running a guest network could make you vulnerable.

I would be interested to hear if anyone knows if this is an urban legend or legitimate concern.

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You could always just flood your neighbors network, making it unusable.

Or is you have a good relationship with them you could ask them to turn the signal strength down- lots of routers support this. Or openWRT