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 […]
After turning off the wifi setting on my 2022ish Samsung TV, no attempts to connect to wifi. I don’t have a password, but it doesn’t appear to have connected to my wifi.
I also live in the woods and there’s no neighbor wifi or anything.
That said, before I turned wifi off, the TV was CONSTANTLY sending data to the mothership.