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Is your television watching YOU? Smart TVs can spy on their owners

 
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02/03/2013 09:51 AM
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Is your television watching YOU? Smart TVs can spy on their owners
It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory or like something out of a science fiction movie, but it's true: it's possible that while you're watching your television, it could be watching you.

A security firm has discovered a glitch in Samsung's Smart TV that "can give hackers access to the device's built-in camera and microphones, allowing them to watch everything you do," RT.com reported recently.

The Malta-based security company, ReVuln, posted a video demonstrating how a team of researchers were able to hack into the Smart TV and access its setting, widgets, channel lists, USB drives and configurations for its remote control. The flaw permits hackers to gain access to any and all personal data stored on the TV as well, said the firm.

"We can install malicious software to gain complete root access to the TV," the video noted.

'I always feel like somebody's watching me...'



With that kind of access, hackers are able to use the television's built-in camera and mics to see and hear everything that is in front of it (like you). "Instead of just watching TV, viewers could themselves be watched without knowing it," said RT.com.

Moreover, the flaw is not inherent on just one model - it is present on all 11 Samsung TVs of the company's latest generation of sets. The Smart TVs feature many of the same components as do computers, but they don't have the same kinds of protections, like firewalls and antivirus software.


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02/03/2013 10:27 AM
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Don't buy Smart ANYthing, you guys!!
Yes, they can do this through tvs now .
Don't buy into the crap. Say No to all of the smart appliances and the new smart meters(digital)(yes,these can be manipulated and hacked too!)! For in so doing, you assist in their agenda/ scheme for the Orwellian society. Boycott/ban ! ..that is unless you like being being spied on and your freedom stripped.
People just don't get it these days. They seem to have no clue as to what is happening in this world. I would never trade my privacy for being ''connected'' /idiodic technocracy. This is a detriment to ALL of us. And this makes every one vulnerable.
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02/03/2013 10:31 AM
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the so called smart grid makes us all the more vulnerable. Just think about it!
Things are done intentionally!
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02/03/2013 10:41 AM
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Spying on couch'taters now. What will they think of next?

Give your mother-in-law a new TV.





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