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[–] 22 points 3 weeks 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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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    If they're smart TVs it's still listening and will pick up and send using any nearby wifi with no password.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks 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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  • 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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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 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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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    My router is Opnscence & pihole VMs running on a proxmox host with unbound/DHCP, VLAN segmentation and DHCP snooping on managed switches . YMMV

    DNS resolution, split DHCP/DNS roles, and segmented services FTW.

    Cost? 1 discarded enterprise miniPC, 1 extra NIC and a managed switch. (Cheaper than some commercial routers if you're creative.)

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