[jimfree]

Yes, we love Big Brother!

[arthurus]

The part about the TVs being remotely operable spies is old news but it was Google and Samsung etc that were the immediate scoundrels. The part about the CIA is new information but you know it had to be and I am sure most everyone assumed it. So this is not so much revelation as confirmation.

[RayChuang88]

In fact, ANY Internet-enabled device could be hacked--every "smart" TV out there, the Amazon Echo and Dot device, and the Google Home device.

[farming pharmer]

My old Toshiba CRT works just fine, and doesn’t spy on me.

[hollywood]

Look at your cable box sitting over there by your (smart?) TV. It’s staring right back at ya, and, if it’s got fiber optic service into it, its little front panel that is designed to passively “receive” your remote’s key presses could sooo easily also actively “receive” whatever you’re doing and/or saying, could have a little lens and/or microphone embedded in it, and could send all it sees and/or hears out to the good guys. Sleep well, fellow tin-foilers.

[gaijin]

There is ANOTHER COUNTRY inside of the USA.

It has it’s own...

laws
norms
people
culture
financing
territory
outlook on the proper role of the USA

[bigbob]

I said last night, this would deserve to be called “bombshell”!

[Dr.Deth]

Oh my goodness. They actually called it "Weeping Angel". As in, when you're not watching, it's doing things.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Wikileaks CIA Bombshell: Vault7 Reveals Plan With MI5 to 'BUG Samsung Smart TV's' In Major Leak

This was reported a little more than a year ago, though not as a CIA plot and not as succinct detail. Samsung has a number of models of "smart" TVs going back a few years.

[i_robot73]

Wondered about a mic., but I guess a speaker can be used in reverse, no?

[TBall]

I’ve always just assumed my smart TV was bugged. Not that that stops me from doing anything different. I figure that I will never be important enough for anyone to care what I do. Although the female watchers probably can’t help but admire my extreme handsomeness.

[Flintlock]

Tape or paint over the video camera.

Drill through the microphone (or use a nail).

Problem: solved!

[Swordmaker]

Possible for your Android list. . . Samsung TVs use Android.

[ameribbean expat]

Samsung has to be excited by this news. Like exploding batteries and the founders kid indicted for corruption weren’t enough.

[TChris]

Simple solution:

If there's no electricity going to your TV, it's really off.

[MarkL]

"Weeping Angel?" Jeez, that's enough to keep me from ever buying another Samsung product!

They're the creepiest evil aliens EVER, from the Dr Who TV series!

Yikes!

Mark