08-03-2017, 06:48 PM
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Re: TV Spies
Some people will believe anything!
Just think - Would some manufacture add a camera and microphone, to all the millions of TVs he sells, in order to watch what a few of them get up to?
They don't even know who bought the TV!
maybe it's Ant & Deck making a surprise programme/
Or maybe It's Obama?
All will be revealed on April 1st.
08-03-2017, 11:22 PM
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Re: TV Spies
Originally Posted by Dobra
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When I bought my Panasonic "smart" TV, I disabled the internet, for the simple reason I had tablet, laptop and desktop computers to access it. I also read that spies are able to monitor your TV.Now I see that spies are in fact doing this, making householders vulnerable.
I read smart televisions can be hacked but if they don't incorporate a camera or a microphone, this isn't going to be the sort of hacking being spoken of here. Even if they have got cameras and microphones, they have to be enabled in the settings. If those settings aren't present in the menus, then it isn't that kind of TV.
I haven't got such a TV, so can only go by what I read but televisions of this nature should have a microphone symbol on one of the remote control buttons. This must be pressed to get the voice recognition to work. I suppose you'd need to have trust in whether the function is actually turned off when it says it is but I rather think it would be.
All in all, I think the functions in a television that enable voice recognition and verbal commands would have to be purposely left enabled for there to be any danger of information being gathered in this fashion.
I asked myself why any manufacturer would want to build this function into a TV? Then I thought about those who might physically disabled in one way or another. It would be very handy for them. The rest of us can just turn it off and not use it. I almost wish had a TV with voice recognition so I could to put to the test.
Is it that likely that televisions in the average home will be hacked? Maybe not hacked as such but it does seem that words get encrypted and stored on a remote server somewhere and that might not be desirable. I wouldn't be happy to use it if I didn't have to. Beaming the remote control's IR signal at the TV works for me.
Does anyone remember the Peter Cook character 'E.L Wisty'? It reminds me a bit of that. He reckoned, "Down the end of every pipe there is a government official looking at you". Today it would be, "Down the end of every household appliance ..."
09-03-2017, 08:54 AM
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Re: TV Spies
Originally Posted by mart
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I almost wish had a TV with voice recognition so I could to put to the test.
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