Page 1 of How to tell if your Samsung TV has been hacked

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/worried-cia-hacked-samsung-tv-heres-tell/

TL;DR... when it goes into standby, if there is a blue led still lit around the back, someone is spying on you!

But don't be too paranoid, to hack your TV requires USB access.

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th March 2017, 10:36

Quote:
Rob Shepherd says...
"But don't be too paranoid,"
If they really want a boring version of Gogglebox they can have a listen.
'Another cup of tea?'
'Did you eat the last biscuit? You pig'
'Don't let the cat lick your plate go and put it in the sink'

The downfall of western civilization is not being plotted at Chez Snaps.


Snaps

I know someone who won't have a smartphone because "THEY" can follow his movements because of the GPS in the phone. It drives me crazy because as I've said to him, "yeah, but who gives a dam where you go & what you do?". His reply is "well if I don't have one, no one can!". Grrrr, why would anyone want to listen or follow most of us.

yeh, my SMS trail would be as interesting as Snap's TV conversations, mostly consisting of

"can you get milk/bananas/bread on the way home"
or
"I'm going to be late."

I used to work with some-one who didn't have a Nectar, Clubcard etc as he didn't want "them" to know what he was buying.  I pointed out it's actually quite useful if there's a product recall etc. as well as the money saving benefits.

Although where I used to work they had a Samsung TV for video conferencing, and that had a camera etc built into it, so IT were worried about that, despite plugging in video conferencing stuff!

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 8th March 2017, 21:20

Bandi is busy laughing at all his 'non believer' friends, he'll be along soon.

Can you not just stick some black sticky tape over microphone and camera on these TV's ?

The MIB will think your just out all the time :D