Posted on 12/16/2012 6:25:14 AM PST by shove_it
Viewers, beware: while youre watching TV, your TV might be watching you back. A security firm discovered that Samsungs Smart TV can give hackers access to the devices built-in camera and microphones, allowing them to watch everything you do.
The Malta-based firm ReVuln posted a video showing its team of researchers hacking into one of the Samsung TVs and accessing its settings, channel lists, widgets, USB drives, and remote control configurations. The security flaw allows hackers to access any and all personal data stored on the TV.
We can install malicious software to gain complete root access to the TV, the video writes. With this access, hackers can use the Smart TVs built-in camera and microphones to see and hear everything in front of it. Instead of just watching TV, viewers could themselves be watched without knowing it.
But this flaw isnt present in just one specific model. The vulnerability affects all 11 Samsung televisions of the latest generation. The Smart TVs have many of the same features as a computer, but lack the same kind of protection. The devices do not have security features such as firewalls and antivirus software...
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Don’t watch TV.
So take 2 Smart HDTVs and face them at each other and see what happens....
Why do I care if I’m spied on?
(my imitation of Smart Meter supporters)
Dang it! No more watching porn with a rope tight around my neck while mastur . . . I mean . . This is bad. Intrusive even.
Look for a Friday night Executive Order requiring this “feature” in all new TVs starting 1/1/13.
Who wants a TV with a camera and microphone installed?
“With this access, hackers can use the Smart TVs built-in camera and microphones to see and hear everything in front of it. Instead of just watching TV, viewers could themselves be watched without knowing it.”
George Orwell is not only rolling over in his grave, he is laughing at us.
Long live Big Brother!
A friend of ours was just telling us she has the new Samsung Smarty TV and she uses it to Skype. Guess her TV is *smarter* than she knew!
Duct tape
Red Green
The guy sent to spy on me deserves a pay raise, poor thing.
Post-It over the camera will take out the video portion of the problem. You could also play Yoko Ono or Nina Hagen music to kill the hearing of the folks gathering the audio. You will need hearing protection for yourself though.
I think I’ll keep my 1982 Zenith.
A short piece of black electrical tape over the lens should solve the problem.
“Note to self: Stop having sex with Victorias Secret models in TV room.”
If I were with Victoria’s Secret models I’d want everybody to know!
¿¿¿ W T F ???
That was a ‘70s/80s conspiracy theory!
When conspiracy theories become reality!
You may have just stumbled on to the reason for the Obama phones....
If I ever had access to someone’s TV like that, whenever they tried to change the channel, I’d change it right back. Just to screw with them, of course.
Tech Ping worthy? I’d be interested in knowing what OS is running on these things. I’d bet it was an embedded linux with really bad defaults set up. (Or running as root)
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