A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices’ microphones to listen to users.

  • bampop@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    For targeted ads. I mean, given that there’s a spy device building a detailed profile of your behavior in the “privacy” of your own home, they wouldn’t use it for anything more nefarious than targeted ads, right?

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      2 days ago

      Wasn’t the LG one that LG could locate a person of interest and then listen in, like what a shady government would do with some Israeli technology