So you would rather not know that the CIA is spying on you through your TV?
And any CIA that are conducting domestic espionage should be shot as well.
That's about as plain as I can make it.
As soon as we all went to digital, I figured we were all being spied on. That little light doesn’t go off unless I pull the plug.
I would rather know it.
That doesn’t necessarily make the leaker a whistleblower. Could have done it for money.
They only have that ability if your smart TV is connected to the internet, but then so do other hackers as well.
Frankly, one needs to assume that no form of electronic communication is secure from being intercepted. Nor should anything that has the ability to listen or see.
In the days of 300 baud modems and BBS’s, I got cut off while on the computer one night about midnight. So I decided to call it a night. Phone rings and the operator (?) asks what I was doing. I told her and was promptly told “you can’t do that on a phone line.”
Monitoring has been going on for a long time.
Until leakers are arrested, charged, incarcerated then executed, the leaks will continue.. We MUST get back to the rule of law and enforcement of espionage laws.