I have seen stories of smart TVs doing active scans for any unsecured wifi network in range, then connecting and phoning home without ever informing the user or showing anything in the menus. Is that a real thing?
E: And in the ongoing arms war, then manufacturer's ship remotes that no longer use tried and true IR but instead go over the same bluetooth or 2.4ghz chip. Some probably already do, I would expect.
If you are having issues because of physically fixable issues there are surgeries that can help (I had 2 things fixed). Most of the time however its just being fat and physical. Loosing the weight helps and the effect can be tracked in the data the CPAP collects. The doctor can then use the data to adjust then pressure down.
I am speaking from experience. My pressure setting has dropped as I took off the beer gut. This time next year I will likely be able to be done with it.
No need to include a modem when your customer's neighbor has an internet-connected toaster within bluetooth range of the TV.
We’ll be okay for another 5-10 years before they securely start locking that down too.
1. Scan the HDMI content and send information back to the mothership to help vendors know what you're watching.
2. Scan the local network for shares and look at media on them, again to send back to the mothership.
There are a lot of ways this can (and has) gone horribly wrong for privacy.
In terms of what, lines of code? Engineer days?
It was 2G iirc, enough for book download. Uploading a perceptive hash of what you are watching - e.g. a frame every few seconds - also fits on 2G speeds.
Ford, iirc, places it on the floor under or behind some seats making it much easier to deal with.
I think MA just passed a law about not allowing vehicles sold there to sell your telemetry data or something.
i believe they just have to share the data with others, which they don't want to do.
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...
TV phones home a lot, with info about stuff, some info big lots of bandwidth.
could there be an attack with buying some tvs and putting them on public WiFi - and could one find a way to increase the amount the tv was sending so it amounted to an attack - but still have plausible deniability.
If tvs were put on public wifi, which I guess there is no reason why you shouldn't put your tv on public wifi, and the tv is using lots of bandwidth, and your tv is popular in a country with lots of free wifi, is that tv manufacturer guilty of an attack on the free wifi infrastructure of that country?
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