[FORGED] Samsung Warns Customers: Watch Your Mouth

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sun Feb 14 18:09:37 PST 2016


grarpamp <grarpamp at 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.

>The TV owner can also disconnect the TV from the Wi-Fi network.

... thus reducing it to a dumb TV.

(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?).

Peter.



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