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Smart TV spying on you? Don't worry, buy a monitor instead. It will spy on you, too.

• car_analogy 5y ago
  That is my worry as well. For now, there are still dumb monitors on the market, but I fear the story with smart TVs will repeat itself.
• amelius 5y ago
  Extra fun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HEC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HEC > HDMI Ethernet Channel technology consolidates video, audio, and data streams into a single HDMI cable, and the HEC feature enables IP-based applications over HDMI and provides a bidirectional Ethernet communication at 100 Mbit/s.
  • Nextgrid 5y ago
    This would require the other HDMI device to be complicit and act as a switch/router. I have yet to see any device supporting this technology at all.
    • rektide 5y ago
      DisplayPort has a usb2 over aux channel mode that similarly sounds awesome & sensible & which seemingly no one ever bothered to implement. :(
• UberFly 5y ago
  They don't really want to see what goes on in front of monitors.