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[–] 21 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

Still is in my house. TVs are separate from streaming devices. No remote or speaker has a mic in it. Phones and laptops have mic and video permissions off if not in use.

Do I expect someone is listening? Yes but they are at the nation state level and ain't willing to risk their tools for less than national level threats.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    The danger is that these things can be done automated by now. It's not just governments doing this. It is the private sector, and they sell all of that to the highest bidder. The only way out is either to stop them connecting to the internet or install a free software operating system you control.

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  • [–] 2 points 50 minutes ago

    And even then the firmware (or a hidden RTOS) can still be able to record and send everything.

    We need to seriously fund more things like free, libre and open source (and libre and open hardware) TVs, TV-boxes, TV-sticks, phones, tablets and so on.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago* (3 children)

    Your router is GPS geotagged and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity, so good luck with that.

    Even I'm not totally immune.

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Your router is GPS geotagged

    Not if you turn the wifi off.

    and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity

    Recording all my VPN activity, maybe. But all it's going to see is a lot of encrypted traffic to and from my VPN server.

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