On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> writes:
Voice recognition, which allows the user to control the TV using voice commands, is a Samsung Smart TV feature, which can be activated or deactivated by the user.
... which can then be reactivated by anyone who walks through the 6.022e23 security holes that come preconfigured in any "smart" TV.
A mole in the home - nice.
The TV owner can also disconnect the TV from the Wi-Fi network.
... thus reducing it to a dumb TV.
And why should it be smart? AFAICT, "smart", anymore, WRT to all thnngs consumer/IoT, means nothing more than "spies on you".
(Anyone know how long a TV will run like that, without any access to the constant stream of communication those things want to engage in?).
I don't care about that - I've got a 1080p projector and a bluray player, and buy disks from the bin with cash. If and when 4k projectors come down to a reasonable level I might (maybe) buy one of those and a matching player. Kurt