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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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[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

Just buy a TV and don't connect it to the internet. And none of this has anything to do with AI. Its data you know how Google makes its money why TVs are still so cheap. LG makes more money selling your dsts then they do selling the TVs I imaging Samsung is the same.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week 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

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