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

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[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

AI has nothing to do with this and it was happening before AI became a thing. Data is king and companies want to sell it.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

But it also precedes snooping, too. Which shows how old it is. But it has Ethernet, and can access the local mediaservers. It actually only calls home when I use "check for updates". Which I have not done in years, and won't do until it dies, because it works.

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