[dfwgator]

In America, Television Watches You!

[knarf]

Hell, at this point, I'm pretty sure my electric toothbrush signals back to China that I don't use it ...

I have dentures

Should I be worried ?

[Defiant]

What kind of information do those TVs send back? Logins for Netflix? Viewing history? They don’t have microphones or cameras built in, do they?

[Revel]

You ever try to get around in the menus of those Chinese TV’s? It is not a whole lot of fun.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

If it’s chinese, and hooked to the internet, it’s capable of spying. Often they build it in, and figure out what to do with it later.

If it’s on the internet, it can see all traffic in your house in that side of any firewall (router). Just sniffing away, awaiting commands from some remote server. Sometimes calling home with info—MAC adresses, channels watched, other connected devices... it’s a hacker’s dream, awaiting.

And. It’s. Everywhere. They really are that smart, and planned it out for 20 years.

[PMAS]

All new TV’s are made in Chy-NA - except for LG & Samsung which are made in South Korea

[Bobalu]

I work with embedded systems and there is a Chinese part that has become ubiquitous due to its unbelievable low cost.

It is called the ESP8266 and I just bought a bunch of them for 1.10 each and that includes shipping from China.

It is a 32bit processor with 4mb of flash memory and has wifi on board.

A guy on Hack-A-Day opened up one of those smart light bulbs and this part was what gave it internet connectivity...they are in bulbs, thermostats, doorbells...you name it, they are there.

I have no idea what they might be up to but I'm concerned.