Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Remember how Comcast routers made that ghost mesh network?

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And Amazon sidewalk.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Any link to news? This is my first time heard of this.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t have a link but Comcast offered a get WiFi anywhere option for their customers where they could use anyone’s combination modem/router from Comcast to get online with their company credentials. This was (is?) impossible to disable.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds standard for Comcast or whoever they are now. Couldn’t find anything though. Curious

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not putting your WiFi password in would absolutely be reliable.

  No, it would not.

  I’d love to hear your ideas on how they’d remotely break into your WiFi Network

  They wouldn’t, of course.

  However, your network is not the only network in the world, and WiFi is not the only transport in the world. Neighbors exists. Open guest networks exist. Drive-by and fly-by networks exist. Mesh networks exist. Bluetooth, LoRa, cellular, etc. etc. etc. Maybe you live on an isolated mountain top where these things are unlikely to reach you (at least until satellite network links become smaller and cheaper), but even that is not absolute, and most of us don’t.

  Unless you disassemble your TV and examine all the components within, and know what they do, it could have any of these capabilities. Given how prevalent multi-network support is becoming in electronics integration, it is not unusual at all for hardware functionality to be dormant at first but available for activation later.

  I’d love for you not to be adversarial.

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  • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To add to this, often, even if you turn off Bluetooth, your devices can still communicate via Bluetooth Low Energy, something that’s separate from classic Bluetooth and typically (to my knowledge) cannot be turned off. As an example, I’ve heard that Google uses it to send ad targeting info between devices.

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• zorblitz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you have a samsung phone in the house, it can connect to the TV and give it a hotspot of sorts. This is a hypothetical, not real (yet!)

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