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.
The walls have eyes... erm.... ears!
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svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They don’t intercept anything honestly. They either buy it or receive it through PRISM. Saying they intercept it really isn’t the right word when Internet companies literally allow them into their interconnect locations (IXP) to install NSA hardware. I suppose technically you could still call it intercept, but it is more like they just listen to all traffic without any actual clandestine action.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tomato tomato
aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
FYI for those who just bought the newest AppleTV gen4, it has 3 built-in microphones
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks 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.
aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Would love to know how considering I bought the hardware and maintain it. The Geo tag is a county over due to the IP of the ISP which you can only relocate it with a VPN.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My router is Opnscence & pihole VMs running on a proxmox host with unbound/DHCP, VLAN segmentation and DHCP snooping on managed switches . YMMV
DNS resolution, split DHCP/DNS roles, and segmented services FTW.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They were called “screens”.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I have a cheap “smart TV” that never has been and never will be connected to the internet.
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If it’s an LG, be aware that it will try to use any free wifi or even use bluetooth…
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah we didn’t learn shit from that book.
That being said, it’s easily one of the more important books I’ve ever read.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We have known ever since snowden, but people kinda just pretended that never happened.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We are living in the age where dystopia is being built up and all we can do is write witty comments online about it.
Its an interesting life experience and our generation will be the last ones who didn’t live in dystopia. 20 years from new, the west will be exactly how we think it will be.
sp3ctre@feddit.org 2 weeks 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.
Kondeeka@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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)
ducktumn@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A speaker also can be used as a microphone btw lol.
sp3ctre@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Probably true, even if not the best quality. Anyway, perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The difference was that Orwell’s TVs could not be turned off, whereas today people won’t turn them off.
dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get a pi-hole
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
DNS over HTTPS kinda makes that moot. Plus proprietary apps can roll their own DNS-like protocol, and chuck data down whatever port they want.
Get Wireshark
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ve mac banned my TV from the wifi
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Years ago,
[Bad Russian accent] In Soviet Rrrussia, TV watches you!
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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