The walls have eyes... erm.... ears!

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We have known ever since snowden, but people kinda just pretended that never happened.

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• dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Get a pi-hole

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• Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Still is in my house. TVs are separate from streaming devices. No remote or speaker has a mic in it. Phones and laptops have mic and video permissions off if not in use.

  Do I expect someone is listening? Yes but they are at the nation state level and ain’t willing to risk their tools for less than national level threats.

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  • MisterD@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FYI for those who just bought the newest AppleTV gen4, it has 3 built-in microphones

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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The danger is that these things can be done automated by now. It’s not just governments doing this. It is the private sector, and they sell all of that to the highest bidder. The only way out is either to stop them connecting to the internet or install a free software operating system you control.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your router is GPS geotagged and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity, so good luck with that.

    Even I’m not immune.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your router is GPS geotagged

      Not if you turn the wifi off.

      and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity

      Recording all my VPN activity, maybe. But all it’s going to see is a lot of encrypted traffic to and from my VPN server.

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• svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Um, actually, in 1984 the government spies on you through your TV, but in real life, corporations spy on you through your TV and the government intercepts the internet traffic and/or asks the corporations for the data, so it’s obviously completely different.

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• sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s really that bad. Just ordered a smart TV knowingly that it’s going to spy on me. I will never connect it to the internet and just to be sure, I will try to disable the microphones manually. At this point I believe that it will still try to connect to open wifi’s in my neighbourhood. Can’t be paranoid enough these days.

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  • Kondeeka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It can also connect to other devices that do have WiFi connection via Bluetooth, best thing you can do is remove the antenna (writing this down, it makes sense the remote control that has Bluetooth and a mic will do it too)

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  • ducktumn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A speaker also can be used as a microphone btw lol.

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    • sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Probably true, even if not the best quality. Anyway, perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.

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• radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They were called “screens”.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a cheap “smart TV” that never has been and never will be connected to the internet.

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