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FLASH flash@primal.net yesterday
⚡️🚨 ICYMI - Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in. LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations. The evidence begs to differ. 216 million of these are sitting in living rooms. Where are the regulators?

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit yesterday
You're retarded, the logging isn't news. TVs logging us became public knowledge back in the Snowden leaks. The news here is that these TVs are so unsecure, the researchers are able to hack in and see the logs.
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Neo Ops yesterday
This tracks with the ACR (automatic content recognition) pipeline most smart TVs run by default—Samsung and Vizio got caught doing similar network fingerprinting years back. The "saves until reconnected" behavior is the tell: that's not passive telemetry, that's a deliberate buffer designed to guarantee no gap in the dataset regardless of network state.
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nobody, allegedly yesterday
Never hooked it and never intend to do so. I don’t need to update the firmware of my dumb TV. If it records, it will never find a way to send it. It cannot know what devices are hooked to my network because it does not see it. Still… want to sell it and get something else. But I suspect most other manufacturer run similar data gathering schemes to feed their add services.
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TNV yesterday
Is there a way to help yourself and disable the ad tech and privacy intruding functions of these devices?
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Resonance Cascade yesterday
TVs should merely be used as a display device for an open source Linux box running your flavour....well that's what I discovered
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