Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar’s mic if the TV doesn’t have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.
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Yup, Smart TV’s of any brand (at least in the US) are essentially spyware. I made a video about it recently.
The upside is that if you don’t connect your TV to the Internet, all that data just sits in its internal memory and doesn’t go anywhere. So don’t connect it.
The weirdest thing in all this is that it’s Texas, of all places, leading the charge to hold these TV manufacturers accountable. (And Ken Paxton, the most cartoonishly corrupt politician in recent memory at that.)
Their own harnesses breaking out of their test environments and hacking third party companies is “oopsi” but their customers using an agent in a controlled manner to reverse engineer firmware of a device they own is bad. I see. Fuckers.
Corporations gonna corporate.
It’s high time we had a revolution of our own in North America to chase out these corporate barons that own every little minute aspect of our lives.
Lina Kahn was kicking ass at the FTC! First thing I thought when I woke to another Trump win, “There goes our last, best hope.” She’s a hero of mine. Mamdani snatched her for his team, so more evidence he has his shit together.
Lina Kahn is a hero of mine as well!
I highly suggest you to read “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, especially the new and updated version.
They stripped our freedom to own our devices. We need a revolution.
More than anything, we need to stop buying this shit.
Sales, as in “there are none…” for a few quarters would tank the stock valuations enough that the stakeholders would make life quite uncomfortable on the C-suites for their decisions to bake spyware into everything.
NGL, BEST decision I made was to jettison cable TV service back in 1999 when we came online. If (and this is a BIG “if” nowadays…) I watch something, it’s from a DVD or I hoist the Jolly Roger and sail the seven seas…
My current 10 year old TV is doing duty as a 50-inch 4K display for my gaming PeeCee… and it’s kinda “special needs” as a supposedly smart TV in that it doesn’t have a single app installed that can actually stream 4K - what can I say… it was a WalMart special… gee, I wonder why?
I put it online (via ethernet) when we got it to test it’s “smart” abilities and quickly discovered it was an absolute dog.
Works great to game on though.
LOL!
More than anything, we need to stop buying this shit.
Or we can pull together and design boards as drop in replacements for the circuit boards in the SmartTVs. I’m shocked at how cheap it is to get custom boards printed these days. Since SmartTVs are sold at a loss with the intent of making even more money by selling your data, replacing the hardware in the device should still end up being cheaper than the cost of an unsubsidized TV.
With the AI tools available for designing boards now, it shouldn’t be terribly difficult for those with the right skills to do this.
Hmmm. that is a great idea.
This is way too complex of a topic to leave to “consumer choice”. There are layers upon layers of complex systems at play, not to mention miles of legalize and precisely crafted PR statements to say one thing and mean another.
The only way this gets better is with government regulation, pretending consumers can make a difference here is blaming the victim.
But the government itself has bbeen bought out by most of these bige companies …so…
What ‘government regulations’ you thinking of? I sure theyll all be very helpful… 🤭
Bro the government itself is part of the prpblem cauae the government is A-OK with a capitaliistic set of governmental regulations that give the richest capitalists many freedoms even when theyre being ‘regulated’. These government regulattions you speak of will be like palcing these rich companies under house arrest…in a 26,000 square feet mansion!
We have tto destroy the system itself in its entirety, both the bribed governmeent and the capitaliists that contorol our economies and our governments.
Why cant WE be our own government? Werecognize that thhere is a problem. We investigate the problem and recognize that this is psychopathic. We recognize that the execs at companies thatt do this type of bullshit should be arrested , or worse, and then have their assets nationalized … We cant do this shit our selves?
Why cant WE be our own government?
Because most of “we” are checked out dummies who are easily manipulated by unscrupulous entities. And the more money you have, the more dummies you can manipulate.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that.
As someone that spent 15 years in the Nielsens Homescan Consumer Shopping survey (rebranded as National Consumer Panel) the power IS in the hands of the consumer… Hence the huge industry effort on determining what advertising does and does not work.
In that survey, one would scan ALL purchases and send in the data weekly and the company would then send questionnaires on WHY one buys an item and what, if any, commercials they see (in print, radio or TV - then later online) and if the ads were memorable.
As I was answering the questionnaires, I was also noting how they framed the questions, and what assumptions they made in the pre-selected answers we were to use. (…you’d be astonished by the assumptions that are made about the public…)
The fact that panel members didn’t even have the ability to use their own words to say what they did or didn’t like about their purchases or the businesses and instead it was about feelings… that right there told me that emotional manipulation was/is the main leverage point used by advertisers and corporations.
The consumers have ALL the power in the equation, as all a consumer has to do is say “no”… the level of manipulation that industry has to go to - and the surveying and the depths to which people are plumbed and pumped for info - is more about maintaining customers through deception than it is about keeping them by creating high quality goods and services.
Used shit is the way to go… or better yet, be the cultural change yourself and jettison the old media. For sure I did by cutting the cable TV in 1999, …and we haven’t looked back.
you’d be astonished by the assumptions that are made about the public…
Please provide an example or two. I’d like to be astonished.
The best one was the pharma survey… They assumed that EVERYONE in middle age is on meds.
I got sent a pharmaceutical survey and how those operate is you would get a mailer with a series of questions and you’d use the barcode scanner to scan the answers.
I got into that targeted survey (somehow) and was sent a three ring binder of pages and pages of drugs.
The first four pages were questions related to when you’d started on meds, for what illness and when did you stop taking them and why…
Nowhere in the initial survey questions was the option to say “I have not STARTED taking medicine / have no need…”
I called in and talked to a representative and she couldn’t wrap her brain around the concept that as a middle-age American there were ZERO prescription drugs being taken by anyone in my home.
I had to ask her why the survey was predicated on the belief that everyone was on drugs - and she got a bit testy and huffed “well, I wouldn’t say that!” and I asked her where the “no use or need for meds option” was on the survey if that wasn’t the case… she replied “well, don’t you need medicines?” and I said “Nielsen has our full scan list of the food we’ve bought and eaten for the last decade and no one can draw a connection between proper food and health?”
Crickets…
“Oh, you must be really healthy!” “Yeah… we don’t eat garbage…” More crickets…
Then she credited me the points for the survey (It was a big one so it tallied large - I got two iPods out of that year’s totals…) and quickly hung up.
The assumptions that we also watched TV and the questions about ads on it that we’d seen were pretty interesting. they also sent out a Media Recording device (looked like an old-school pager) that would listen all day for an ultrasonic sound that was broadcast on the various Clear Channel radio stations and we were to wear it as we went about our day. Sorry to say that one was a bust - by that time I’d discovered somafm online and was well into streaming radio.
My car is a 2010 Mazda 3.
My TV is a 32 inch 2009 Sony Bravia 720p compatible with both analog and digital TV signals, and has coax cable and RCA inputs and outputs among others like HDMI of course. I can still hook up my original NES and even a VCR to it. It’s the best TV I will ever have and I hope it never dies out.
My PC is running Linux 100% now.
We go to the local library to rent DVDs for free, buy them used from thrift shops, or download from TPB. I have a USB disk hooked to an NVidia Shield to watch them on VLC on my old TV.
This is the way…
If all manufacturers of smart TV’s with the best picture qualities are using this targeted avertising/spying firmware, as much as I agree with your sentiment, it’s not really a viable option for someone who’s in need of purchasing a TV.
Is there a reason that a TV needs to be new? I picked up a 50" plasma for 80 bucks last year, for use in my work studio. NGL, attaching it to a MacPro that’s used for graphics - with the color saturation on that thing? - holy hell, it’s beautiful and I can match the outputs to the color profiles for the print jobs I run off… Facebook marketplace for the win, my man.
Thanks, but I don’t think I really need to read it as I’m literally living through it and am very aware if it all.
Unless you think I’m missing out on something?
capitaliism gonna capitalism.
Whenever humanity chooses to create a system of economics that places humanity, human communities and our transformative abilities to change the world around uis with our new forms of arts and sciences at its centre rather than disgusting rich jerks and their property Ill be standing with my ‘lethal item’ here waiting for them… 🤷🏿♂️
to reverse engineer firmware of a device they own in order to show the additional privacy violations by Samsung.
Yeah, this is completely messed-up. I wonder if Samsung broke any laws by accessing customer soundbars without consent, reporting what they watched, etc…
Once again, theres an amazing amount of ethical ai use out there but apparently nigh nobody cares about that
Ethical from the start you mean? Trained on data with the blessing of the owner?
There are, yes. TONS of tiny models, a few large ones.
LLMs themselves aren’t the issue, its the corporations/capitalism itself causing the problems, as is tradition.
First of all, yes, and also not all ai has to be generative or llms. Theres also a lot of other ai that was done before openai fucked everything up.
When we say AI, we generally mean the LLMs. It’s become a marketing term for them.
Obviously, we used neural networks and such ethically for a long time.
The problem isnt those, it’s the mass harvesting of data, the endless copyright breaches, the stealing of peoples work. All to resell it. While ruining the planet environmentally, economically and it has fucked with the way people think.
I mean yeah thats true but ethical llms are still completely possible but nobodys investing into it
Because it’s about money. That’s it.
There’s no money to be made from ethical ones, you need enough people willing to give you the rights to their stuff for free, because you would not be able to give royalties to them all.
We already see how unsustainable it is currently with the grand theft models and are just waiting for the bubble to burst.
AI can fuck off and die, we dont need it.
So, you’re against the Wayback Machine?
Libraries are for reading.
Well, their books are, yes.
But, the similarities largely stop there, in this instance. Training “AI” on literature isn’t at all similar to a single person checking out a book/magazine/dvd/et al, and that’s not even getting into the fact that the aforementioned fuckers are destroying tons of physical copies IRL to “train” their bullshit bots.
“AI” ≈ libraries? Pff. We would be so lucky. 🥲
When y’all complained about them leeching Anna’s Archive, the legal approach you demanded means buying and shredding one copy of any book they use. They can’t resell the book or share their scan because that’s piracy, which Lemmy cares deeply about in this context and only this context.
Training is transformative. A program that can retell Shrek in the style of The Hobbit is not even the same category of thing as either original work. What a network is and does cannot be a substitute, unless the Silmarillion had more swamp ogres than I’ve heard.
Don’t apologize for them —especially not with shit argument points and implied shame. Fuck off with that shit. None of this is a consequence of “our” actions, and your stance is more simp than solid. Nah. Hard pass.
Not an argument.
So you think website scraping should be illegal? When LinkedIn was trying to prevent other people from scraping their website (and lost the court around it too), you were on LinkedIn’s side?,
Yeah - my zdoom models.
It’s far too late to put those horses back in the barn.
“we can’t get rid of the Atlantic slave trade it’s here to stay”
Ok buddy
Lemmy: “If we tiny speck of people make a moral stand and don’t use LLMs, they’ll give up their stolen content and go away!”
The theft is done, over, you’re not going to get those horses back in the barn no matter how high your horse is. Do you imagine that on some glorious day the entire planet will legislate wiping all training data and say, “Sorry. Let’s not do that.” Sure. Soon as we get textbook communism working for 8,000,0000,000 people.
Bullshit like this is why I left lemmy last year. It feels like a bunch of children arguing over their personal version of a perfect world. Bluesky was kinda nice, people with some age and experience and an understanding of real politik. Kinda vanilla as well, but cutesy little quips like yours weren’t met with much acclaim.
Go reinvent the world kid, with no understanding of history or human nature. While you’re at it, maybe every museum on the planet can send every artifact back to the original peoples. Uh, gotta put a timeline on “original”, but it’s the right thing to do! Good luck.
Well, maybe you should leave Lemmy again.
I had commented many times on other platforms as to how insular lemmy is. “Believe as we believe or fuck off!”
Well…
And then we’ll see a post about how to grow the community.
Oh yeah please leave again!!!
We’re gonna need a bigger barn
The 10% of ethical AI use is drowned out by the other 90% of absolute liquid trash.
That’s not touching the ethics of stealing everyone’s work for your AI then selling it back to them.
That’s not touching the ethics of aggressive Data Center build outs that threaten people down to their actual health.
That’s not touching the fascist supporting corporations that run and own the frontier AI models.
That’s not touching the lack of those frontier AI company’s ethics. They operate like it’s the fuckng wild west.
How can you possibly have a victim complex about this?
That’s not touching the ethics of stealing everyone’s work for your AI then selling it back to them.
Yeah, it’s the “selling it back to them” part that gets me. I don’t want to outlaw scraping, because then the Wayback Machine couldn’t function. The Wayback Machine is free, though. It’s a public service. (One which is very much needed, IMO.) If, instead, the Internet Archive required that you pay for a subscription in order to use it, I think most people would be very upset, and rightfully so.
You want to scrape the Web to feed your LLM? Cool! Make it an open-weight model.
Right?! And people act like you’re an asshole when you bring this up.
The nerve of some people, and the critical lack of awareness at the people picking all of our pockets.
That’s also not counting the ethics of barraging every site on the internet with a DDOS-level surge of webcrawlers scraping up data for AI training, to the point where every significant website out there has to implement anti-AI countermeasures in order to just stay operational.
There’s so much bullshit with LLMs that needs to be cleaned up, regulated, and outright outlawed before I’m gonna sit here and praise these chucklefucks for opening a kind of Pandoras box with basically no thought.
I wonder what % of actions being ethical would be needed from Germany before WW2 would be considered unjustified.
I’m willing to bet that 10% of the actions the Nazis did (note: out of all the actions the German govt did, including enforcing laws, running trains/buses, collecting taxes, building infrastructure etc) were ethical, and yet the Nazis were still obviously the bad guys in WW2.
„Hitler wasn’t all bad; he built the Autobahn” is one of the things some right wingers actually say.
Exact same vein of arguments the AI band make.
This comment doesn’t even make sense in the context? The danger lies in unethical use. It’s also unregulated.
Don’t forget, there was a very brief time period when Google was ethical. How long did that last?
I think the point is people like the person hacking Samsung smart TVs with AI should get some credit, purist “AI bad” takes don’t account for this. Also if there’s regulation it’s likely to start by targeting good uses like that one. Fuck OpenAI though.
1 good thing coming of it, doesn’t wipe away all the fucking harm AI is causing. If AI never blew up, the world would be better off. It’s introduced a whole host of problems we didnt need, just for the sake of a few people getting richer.
1 good thing coming of it, doesn’t wipe away all the fucking harm AI is causing. If AI never blew up, the world would be better off. It’s introduced a whole host of problems we didnt need
So what though? You don’t have the option of getting rid of it, and it’s a technology, not a person. Nuance is called for, especially if the alternative is refusing to acknowledge good things people do with it, or focusing condemnation on “AI” as a monolithic entity instead of the particular people and companies doing harm with it. Case in point, OpenAI banning this person.
I’m sorry, but AI generally remains “bad” until regulation takes place, community concerns about data centres are properly considered and protections are put in place. Right now, billionaires and corporations are running amok and that usually doesn’t end well.
You don’t need to blame math or people who make use of it for the abuses of billionaires and corporations.
You’ve lost me.
there was a very brief time period when Google was ethical. How long did that last?
Longer than LLMs have been around, actually
People care, it’s just not worth the cost
Yeah, and it’s in China.
Such as?
Such as basically everything done with ai before 2022
There is zero use of “ethical AI” out there.
Only one of those really happened though.
One of the things that AI is actually useful for. Banned!
Hey guys, I am starting to think AI isn’t actually for us.
“Shifted it to the consumer”
• The “Guest Consent” Clause: For example, Section 6(d) of LG’s updated terms of service states that it is the owner’s sole responsibility to obtain consent from household members and guests whose voices might be captured by the TV’s artificial intelligence and voice recognition features.
• The Legal Trap: By agreeing to these terms, you contractually accept the responsibility to warn anyone sitting in your living room that the TV is listening. If a guest sues over an illegal recording under state wiretap laws, the manufacturer will use the EULA to argue that you breached the contract by failing to get that guest’s consent. That’s assuming someone actually reads the EULA
Especially in
• California • Delaware • Florida • Illinois • Maryland • Massachusetts • Montana • Nevada • New Hampshire • Pennsylvania • Washington
because they have all-party consent laws : In these states, recording an oral conversation requires the consent of everyone involved. Because a house guest has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a private home, a smart TV capturing their background audio without their explicit knowledge constitutes a violation of state wiretapping laws, regardless of what the TV’s EULA say
So, you have to have everyone in your household agree to the EULA not just yourself if you use a smart tv in those 11 states to not violate wiretapping laws.
6 mos into owning a Samsung TV, I started getting ads.
So I put a pihole on my network which fixed it but I also started seeing the ENORMOUS amount of times ALL my samsung devices were being blocked. I’m talking THOUSANDS per day per device. Like the TV would be blocked 1,200 times in one day, my samsung smartphone would also be blocked 1,000+ times per day while my wife’s iphone that she uses for every and all social media was being blocked maybe 100 times.
Since then I’ve never bought another Samsung device and hooked an apple tv up to my Samsung TV while disconnecting the tv from the internet. It’s fucking disgusting how you buy their product and still get milked for data/money.
Why do people post things like this in twitter? Why can’t they write it up in a single blog post on a site that does not require users to authenticate to view the whole thread? I have never understood these long twitter threads.
Edit: I just remembered that there is a solution for this: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2113014142600953868.html but it’s still ridiculous that an app needs to exist to aggregate dispirate tweets, and of course it doesn’t work with the parent tweets because they’re not all one thread. Also this app quit working during the twitter API debacle, which is why I forgot about it, but it looks like it’s back.
It’s entirely the wrong format for it. Same as using Discord in place of old text forums. I will rant for HOURS to anyone who will listen about how Discord is an apocalypse and has completely wiped any documentation off the face of the internet for soooo many projects. It’s not searchable or indexed, and even if they make a good discord forum it’s like writing questions and answers on toilet paper and wiping your ass with it after 30 minutes. Moderators and admins constantly complain about people not reading the FAQ or asking the same questions over and over… I WONDER WHY THAT IS. HMMM? MIGHT IT BE BECAUSE NOBODY CAN SEARCH ANYTHING AND YOUR FAQ IS GARBAGE!!! MAYBE ASKING QUESTIONS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET A FUCKING ANSWER!!! (MAYBE. IF YOU’RE LUCKY AND SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE ANSWER SEES YOUR QUESTIONS LIVE AT THAT MOMENT AND RESPONDS)
Summarizing a discord channel into a usable format would be an excellent use for an LLM.
Or people can just use the right format instead of making an LLM play pick up 52 million.
I agree it could make something slightly more useable than discord’s current state but it would be a bandaid fix that doesn’t solve the core problem.
My favorite part of using forums is searching for a term and digging through message after message of people quoting someone asking the same question, and giving them shit. Like damn at least link the answer after you finish chewing the guy out.
Don’t forget “nevermind, I fixed it.”
I dont even get that anymore 😭😭😭 they just ignore my question and keep talking about scalping pokemon
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I agree with you in the main, but you can, in fact, search Discord (provided, of course, you have a Discord account).
You’re right, but you can search discord the same way that guy can search his local dump for that hard drive with billions of dollars worth of bitcoin on it.
It is technically possible. The chance of me finding what i want by searching a 15 million comment discord thread labelled #eng-bugs for my very specific issue is close to zero.
It’s like how lawyers will bury the opposition in literally every document they can find to make finding what’s relevant a needle in the haystack. Except it’s not discord being malicious it’s just criminal misuse of a platform for what it was never made for.
And the search is garbage. Like old reddit search.
But I guess to be completely fair, google and bing and the like also have made their google searches trash too with SEO and AI wevsites. Instead of real results.
And the search is garbage. Like old reddit search.
Did reddit allow you to search by username?
google and bing and the like also have made their google searches trash
I wanna know how to Google search with Bing. lol
I honestly don’t remember for the old reddit search. I think nowadays yes.
If you don’t, you cannot access the guild anyway
Sometimes you just have to get it off your chest, I get it
Lazyness.
People will thread posts o mastodon and cry about a 500 characteraracter limit. Everything to avoid using a fucking blog.Same reason they use tritter entirely
Unfortunately, adoption is a feature you can’t design.
But step one to not having to use Twitter because everyone’s still on Twitter is to get the fuck off Twitter.
In case anyone was ever curious if AI could be used against our corporate masters, here’s your answer.
I suspect that if the AI industry ever gets any sort of regulation, it will be to wrench any kind of power that end users have that may threaten the capitalistic hegemony away from them. Can’t have people reverse engineering their tech to figure out how they are using it to spy on you, cuz THAT’S CYBER ABUSE! :/
that is why anthropoic got scared, afraid of deepseek and other free models.
That, and the price fixing.
… on whose part?
… Yes.
Too little, too late. People like myaelf are already using DeepSeek among other open models & they’re widespread.
probably why they are scared.
wrench any kind of power that end users have that may threaten the capitalistic hegemony
Frog boiling.
That already happened when mobiles began to replace desktops.
Don’t worry. We’ll be able to run larger models locally soon and this kind of stuff will be need to be blocked on the device side, not the model side.
Just use a different website
You are only allowed to use ai for evil
Everybody declared me an idiot when I didn’t hook up my smart tv to the internet. This is why
These TVs can connect to open networks or other smart devices with Internet so that doesn’t necessarily save you
Everyone keeps saying this, but I’ve yet to see any TV caught doing it. They enumerate the devices and networks around them.
I want to build an esp32 with an open access point that logs mac addresses that connect to it. Maybe have it cycle through SSIDs- FreeWiFi PublicWifi Xfinity etc
Maybe deploy it in an apartment where tv density is high?
You need to give it real internet and watch it connect. Android (and i suspect ios) constantly scan all network ssids to refresh the local nework ssid list.
It doesn’t know my device is a dead end until it connects. By then, i have the MAC
That’s accurate. But you’re going to have the mac address of every laptop, tv, phone, light bulb, toaster, microwave, and corporate access point.
EVERYTHING sweeps the network.
And most of them are going to hit some form of beacon to see if the connection is even online. They’re not just going to blindly call snarfingallyourprivatedataoversomeotherunsecurednetwork.samsung.com
They might even call some base telemetry on samsung.com to identify the network as open to your internet connection wizard, ESPECIALLY if they’re not connect. right?
The best option is what the subject of the post is about and just tear down the firmware and see what it does. This is happening now and is the best answer.
the second best option is to give it real open access and see what it does with it. If you start seeing telemetry that’s a strong indicator. That said, if you leave it over for long periods of time, there’s a chance that someone will eventaully tell their tv to go ahead and use that open access point. at which point your checks of does it do it on it’s own are questionable.
Let the leet crew tear it apart; trust what they find.
The best option is what the subject of the post is about and just tear down the firmware and see what it does. This is happening now and is the best answer.
I don’t know, I think an open source board replacement would be good too. I’d prefer that, actually.
Hell, if I could make a decent replacement for Roku and plug it into my TV, I’d open the TV up and disable the WiFi altogether.
Sounds super fun, but probably rumba is right. Get a burner, put an open access point on it (should be a quick app) and log the fuck out of it. Likely get years of content of it if you’re the youtube kind. Look! Corpo X(Y and Z) are evil fucks!
Alright this is the 4th time such a claim was given. Can someone please give us the actual truth or is it just parroting the same “fact” around.
I’m super interested in Fire Sticks. Amazon owns Sidewalk, AFAIK; it’s still active.
Samsung wouldn’t want to pay Amazon for Sidewalk; unidentified data isn’t worth anywhere near as much as you putting it in your Samsung account.
But Amazon doesn’t have to pay for their own shit…
That’s called a factoid :)
Is it confirmed to be only smart TVs? I have a Sony Bravia from 2014, which I’m very fond of as it has no smart features. I would like to think it isn’t spying on me somehow. If it broke, I’m not sure what I’d do. Maybe buy a CRT or something. All TVs are smart these days.
If it broke, I’m not sure what I’d do.
Figure out how to fix it.
When our Samsung TV “broke” it was just the backlight. New one cost me $10 on AliExpress… and a bit more for fuses because I am a dumb idiot.
Though I must wonder how trustworthy those AliExpress fuses are. Louis Rossmann did review some crappy Amazon car fuses that were as good as nails. I don’t have a PSU to test them.Oh, and do something better to lift the panel. Even if it’s not too large to crack under its own weight, the LCD panel is still sharp. It WILL cut into your fingers. Again, I am a dumb idiot.
I love my 2010 Samsung tv and I too believe it’s not spying… does anyone know when the TVs went full predator mode?
Around 2018
This got me thinking about how smug I feel to have a clean tv but then I realize that my phone knows all and tells all to almost anyone. Hate it
Pawn Shop
Well good thing I don’t have any networks just left open.
Your neighbor might tho.
If you have a neighbor with an open wifi network then use it to torrent all the new movies from the most questionable sources without a VPN. I guarantee they will lock it down after they start getting letters from their ISP.
I’m not saying others aren’t screwed in that sense, but I don’t live within wifi range of anyone else.
Most have a small lte modem now. They WILL watch you
Pop open the back and chizel off the modem then.
Voids warranty.
Solder a resistor across the antenna pins.
No they don’t.
While plausible, I haven’t really figured any ways to test for this without cracking my Sony open.
That’s why you connect them to an isolated playpen with no access to anything else or the internet.
Then they’re still gonna try to connect to other devices to shoot their data off.
The WiFi antenna is in use. Unless they have two antennas. Or do freaky stuff. They might do freaky stuff. Well.
My tv has 2 cables plugged in, one is power the other is from the receiver. I have never connected it to WiFi and honestly I’m tempted to take it apart and pull that antenna out.
I declare you sane.
My display mode tv continues to serve me well. Need to access streaming content? that’s what the box is for.
LoL
This “advanced tech” that’s based on stolen IP won’t even give you the lyrics to Happy Birthday to You.
Kimi K3.1 incoming 👾 Fuck this shit restricting REA / reverse engineering anything “DRM / encrypted” etc.
It’s no surprise. They’re all in bed together.
Softbank invested $122 billion in Open AI: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/openai/__kElhSG7uVGeFk1i71Co9-nwFtmtyMVT7f-YHMn4TFBg/funding-and-investors
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=5132
The bosses of Samsung Electronics, OpenAI, and SoftBank held a three-way meeting in South Korea to discuss potential collaboration in AI. Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son at Samsung’s office in Seoul on Tuesday.
This is why I don’t connect my tv to the internet. My wife was super Luke warm about this when I told her about it, and we have a new Samsung TV, with their stupid AI in it…sigh.
So gross. I hope this gets more recognition by big news outlets / investigations. And then eventually regulation
This is one of the reasons why I don’t use American AI chatbots.
