Shindo66 comments on It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you

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 […]

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Back in the day, that would be hooked up to a cable box. Those allllll had microphones in them. (They may have even had cameras and thats why they always wanted to use line of sight remotes so they wouldnt be blocked behind something)

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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

There weren't cameras. Source old tech from the day.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

So come back to this day, you basically hook it up to a linux pc

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 weeks ago

Yup, old Mac in my case but same outcome. Also a retro pi.

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[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 weeks ago

A very common myth. Cable boxes, at least from my local cable company didn't have microphones or cameras. I've taken apart a number of them and found the absolute cheapest, bottom shelf, minimal viable components in them, which is why they broke all the time, but never once found a microphone or camera.

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