{"id":17507,"date":"2026-10-27T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17507"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:58:29","slug":"smart-tvs-always-monitoring-hackable-spyware-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17507","title":{"rendered":"Smart TV&#8217;s: always monitoring hackable spyware (of course)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IFVTcM28KA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gamer&#8217;s Nexus set up their LG and started watching what it sends. Turns out &#8211; it can capture just about everything &#8211; even when unplugged and off. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/cyber-security\/hacker-finds-own-samsung-tv-collecting-scary-amounts-of-user-information-and-gets-banned-by-openai-for-cyber-abuse-tv-runs-an-ai-model-that-collects-audio-screenshots-and-plenty-of-other-user-data-for-ad-targeting\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/cyber-security\/hacker-finds-own-samsung-tv-collecting-scary-amounts-of-user-information-and-gets-banned-by-openai-for-cyber-abuse-tv-runs-an-ai-model-that-collects-audio-screenshots-and-plenty-of-other-user-data-for-ad-targeting\">Samsung TVs were also just busted for recording audio and screenshots<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basically smart TVs are full computers &#8211; with all the same kinds of vulnerabilities hackers can exploit. Most TV companies do a terrible job validating and updating their TV software. With the flood of CVE&#8217;s that have been coming out every week, it&#8217;s extremely likely your TV is vulnerable and can be turned into a remote listening and watching device. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not like this is new or people haven&#8217;t been warning you about this for over a decade. But now it&#8217;s getting real. I&#8217;m curious when the next hacker will turn your TV into a bitcoin miner, spam server, or even record all your living room conversations for blackmail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I absolutely believe that high-profile targets like politicians, actors\/actresses, CEO&#8217;s, investment bankers, and other high profile people could easily become targets. TV&#8217;s and smart devices are probably the least secured devices in your home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the future, the billionaire&#8217;s home (because millionaires are so last year) won&#8217;t live in a smart home &#8211; they&#8217;ll have 70&#8217;s era appliances that just turn on\/off with a mechanical switches and have an old tube TV with no smart features. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamer&#8217;s Nexus set up their LG and started watching what it sends. Turns out &#8211; it can capture just about everything &#8211; even when unplugged and off. Samsung TVs were also just busted for recording audio and screenshots. Basically smart TVs are full computers &#8211; with all the same kinds of vulnerabilities hackers can exploit. Most TV companies do a terrible job validating and updating their TV software. With the flood of CVE&#8217;s that have been coming out every week,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17507\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4yn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17508,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions\/17508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}