Crossposted from https://infosec.pub/post/52518361
The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]
Sure, but you’re selling a TV to someone else. What better way to obfuscate your own data then letting someone else have their “Bob Jones TV” connected to Bob_JonesWifi, and wow, we got 3 years of data? It’s not exactly going to catch you.
I don’t want a backlog of transcripts of my private conversations I’ve had inside my home get uploaded once the next owner connects it to their wifi.
But the TV will think it’s their conversations, that Bob Jones. It has no way to know it moved houses. It will attribute it all to someone else.
Also, just get power strip with an off switch and cut power to the TV when not in use. No power, no data collection.
Once again, a solvable problem if you just think it through.
it knows nearby wifi SSIDs and their hardware addresses, which are trivially easy to use to narrow down a location to a rather precise area. I’m pretty sure the GN video covered that as well, and showed GPS coordinates or a street address being transmitted.
You’re right about the power strip tho.