Posted on 03/07/2017 10:48:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
ping Samsung
Kill your TV set.
In 2007, a person I knew from a message board group hacked into my apple computer, then retold everyone in the group what I had said when I thought my computer was turned off.
I guess sticking with the old 19” Gold Star with rotary tuning dials was a smart move afterall.
I pity the poor sod who watches the spy-stream from our TV.
More seriously, this has to be a “wake by LAN” feature put into the TV, and it would be a “silent wake” which would enable use of the camera/mic without any obvious signaling thru normal TV indicators that the TV was on.
I never thought of any good reason for a wake by LAN feature before. I suppose you could use a wifi enabled wake by LAN feature for controlling the TV from your phone, though.
Wasn’t Vizio just fined a huge sum for their TVs ‘eavesdropping ‘ and reporting their customers’ viewing habits to advertisers?..............
Mr. niteowl77
I hope they like watching me doze off watching “gunsmoke” re-runs.
Smart TV company Vizio was fined $2.2 million for tracking what customers watched without permission: Feb 02, 2017
..which is why I purchased a NOT SMART TV! I like my STUPID TV!
Hooo boy.
Time to sell your Samsung stock!
Well, there goes Samsung’s business. We have a total of three of them. Now I’ve got to try and figure out, short of just unplugging them when they are not in use, how to deactivate their listening capability. Samsung will never offer a fix because the CIA would crap all over them if they did. Just what has our country become? And what about the people in these agencies who see nothing unconstitutional about what they are doing?
All 3 of them are ‘smart’ TV’s?
“Wasn’t Vizio just fined a huge sum for their TVs ‘eavesdropping ‘ and reporting their customers’ viewing habits to advertisers?..............”
Yes they were.
We have a fairly new Vizio and for about 2 months before the announcement of the lawsuit, when we turned on our tv we would get this weird announcement on the tv screen.
Basically demanding that we agree to them monitoring what we watched. The announcement took up the whole screen.
It took a minute or two to get off that screen to stream or watch something from Comcast.
That weird announcement stopped coming on when the law suit amount was publized.
We never okayed what they wanted. I had to over power that screen with my Comcast remote not my Vizio remote.
“Smart” devices can suck my #####
i dont need an echo dot to order a pizza for me.
i can get up and change the thermostat
and i mainly watch movies on my laptop and almost no TV
sheeple never learn
How far can we limp along if every individual is a potential disloyal hacker? Is the US brand just discontinued?
I don’t watch TV and the wife watches cooking shows and those fake Alaskan frontier shows to see the scenery.
The watchers will die of boredom.
We have three Samsung “Smart” TV’s too..always on wifi but I never talk to it..the only apps Ive ever used on it is fandangotv and wwe network
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