Posted on 11/05/2014 1:52:52 PM PST by Lorianne
As long as you wear a bathrobe or pajamas when watching TV as you should be when in front of your computer, you should be OK.......
As a side note, WE can see you too........
my husband used duct tape to repair everything, including one of the kids bikes....
Today a Thought Policeman does not need to stare at your telescreen. A computer does that by staring at thousands of telescreens and ignoring everything unimportant. Important events are flagged, automatically recognized, and presented for human review. This way one *can* have 100% surveillance.
With regard to WiFi, I would not be quick to declare victory by not configuring one. First, there may be open networks nearby that the TV may connect on its own. Second, GSM modules are cheap, and if there is sufficient interest such a module can be instructed to transmit over the cell phone network, bypassing your Internet (OnStar works like that.)
An EE or a tech could probably disable all these features by physically removing the camera and the microphone. Covering them up with tape may feel good, but you never know where really those devices are - it may be that you covered up a fake lens.
The absolute best solution is to have no TV at all. Internet is perfectly capable of keeping you informed. I have an old LCD TV, but it is not used, except when relatives come visiting. If you must have a TV, you may want to get a TV tuner, like HDHomeRun, and watch TV on any computer, tablet, or phone in your house. I have one, and it is functional... but not used, as I don't have a need for TV. These tuners are receive-only.
Well as the famous Red Green of Canada tv fame says...
If the girls don’t find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy....
YUP. 1984 is the first thing I thought of. My Sony has WiFi capability but it’s not connected ( I don’t think!!!!)
Your smartphones, cars, etc are also tracking you.
I like my tv dumb. If it has wireless set the router to ignore it.
Wonder if he has a current generation smartphone. If so, his privacy has already gone out the window.
You can cover up the camera.
This is Big Brother through the back door. Before long, law enforcement will subpoena the records.
LOL
Gaffers tape.
ping
That’s raciest
Hook it to a computer for the ‘advanced features’ Then it is basically a big dumb monitor.
My TV is run by a Vista generation Acer computer that my kid found for me for 25 bucks... Has BlueRay DvD, and I upgraded the network to gigabit, and gave it a 2gig vid card.
Sweet.
Often times, the coax cable connection is as good as hooking to the internet.
Ten years ago, I ditched cable and bought an antenna...for many reasons, and this just reinforces my decision.
I guess. What about the speaker?
That works fine except for naked Tuesdays. So you can’t watch TV naked Tuesdays I guess.
Or one of those "sound bar" speakers. Most flat-panel TVs have an Audio Out jack on them, and allow you to select internal or external speakers in the setup menu.
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