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What's your threat model here that has any relevance to the discussion? That your neighbor hacks your TV to connect it to WiFi behind your back to...? Collect a
by kllrnohj 5y ago
What's your threat model here that has any relevance to the discussion? That your neighbor hacks your TV to connect it to WiFi behind your back to...? Collect analytics?
- Retr0id 5y agoThe remote has a microphone on it, and the TV itself has APIs for capturing screen content. Not really things I'd like to share. Alternatively, they could just brick the TV. I agree that it's highly implausible that my neighbor would do either of these things, but they could, if sufficiently motivated.
- kllrnohj 5y agoBut that still doesn't really answer to what's the relevance to this discussion? It's not really a symptom of a smart TV nor the result of ads from aggressive cost cutting. It's a cool hack, and probably the only conceivable reason I'd ever let a TV take a firmware update, but it's hardly relevant to the topic of whether or not you should let your TV access the internet or whether or not Smart TVs are malicious when denied internet access during setup.
- fsflover 5y ago> It's not really a symptom of a smart TV Vulnerability which allows to listen to you is not a symptom of a smart TV? Since when normal TVs have microphones and such vulnerabilities?