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Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today (lemmy.ml)
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[+] -6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Guys c'mon

There are microphones in YOUR POCKET. They track your location and likely have access to all your communications literally in person and online. We're going after remotes though? Okay. Sure. Whatever.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Bizarre take. Most of us are perfectly capable of being aware of more than one issue at a time. One doesn't cancel out the other.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It isn't different issues though. It is the same issue. But removing the microphone from your TV remote is literally nothing if you live in a world with cellphones or have a cellphone or even just use the internet. Your router can see your house these days.

    It's goofy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This defeatist mentality is exactly what those spying want you to think. Why bother trying to be more private at all right? Might as well give up entirely

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    It's literally not defeatist. I'm saying there is an army coming and you are painting your nails to get ready for war.

    It might look cool, might even help you have confidence to fight better. But it's worthless entirely especially if you live in a house or go to a workplace with people that have phones, own one yourself, have a wifi network or your neighbor has wifi.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Have you considered the possibility that many of the people you are talking to have things like degoogled phones with custom ROMs, while the remote is running a closed-source firmware that most definitely is spying on you all the time?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you think degoogling your phone is going to make it not spy on you, then it makes sense you would target your remote.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It definitely makes it a lot less likely, since you need to have hardware exploits (or some Android zero-days), which are rare, valuable, non-trivial to exploit, and only accessible to a very limited group of actors (CIA, very proficient hacker groups), so these will not be wasted on just stealing your data...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's whataboutism. The simple fact is, the vast majority of people don't want or need microphone capabilities in their tv/remote (unlike a smartphone). But it's there and can be exploited. Add in the fact that TVs are opaque privacy nightmares. Do most people know what they're doing at any given moment? Not a chance.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    It can't be a whataboutism. It's the same topic. I might've not made it clear but if you live in a house with wifi, your neighbor has wifi, your family or coworkers own phones, you go out in public really at all. This isn't going to be the one that's gonna move any needle, it is at best a feel good thing to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nobody here saw anything of Apple's keynote a few days ago.

    Several times my privacy-WTF sense went tingling off the radar. Those devices are the absolute pinnacle of privacy invasion.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Phones? Yeah 100%. And everyone has one so even if you try to deal with your own, others do not and there goes all your effort out the window. Pair it with even the most basic video surveillance and it literally has everything about you. Your habits, your locations, your contacts, all communications, hell it probably can even tell how fast you run, what you eat and what your preferred shows are. It even has a nice little camera to look at your face each time you check your phone.

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