Thomas Drake

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874 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6d ago

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There is no it's fair to say there's no reasonable expectation of privacy of any kind.

doesn't matter.

All all all of these companies are building in and but and the problem is there are there are software controls.

through the settings that you can up to a point adjust.

And I'm not going to talk about exploitable code.

One of the real, real dangers here is the extra th they did not design smart TVs with security in mind.

They really didn't.

So at a consumer level, there's very little you can do.

Now there are certain things you can turn off.

Uh there's a thing called local network scanning, because if your TV is a smart TV and hooked up to your network,

It can go ahead and go out and find out all the other devices that are on the same or adjacent networks.

So but there is the issue of embedded.

This is where it really gets sort of this is now you're into sort of the deep side of this.

Where you have actors and in supply in the supply chain and components who will embed surveillance devices.

It is something I used to do was looking for co covert what they call covert channels.

So this would be a a special purpose device and or an exploit that would be already embedded waiting to be turned on.

Either directly or indirectly.

No, there is no morality here.

Okay.

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