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Why does nobody talk about the fact that most smart TVs are basically always listening
I was reading a teardown article on a security blog last Tuesday and the guy hooked a smart TV up to a network monitor to see what it sends out. Turns out it was phoning home to 12 different servers in 10 minutes, even with the TV off, and a bunch of that traffic was audio fingerprinting data. I went home and checked my own TV in the living room and sure enough it was talking to IP addresses I didn't recognize. Now I just unplug the thing when I'm not watching it and use a cheap streaming stick instead. Has anyone else looked at their router logs and seen weird stuff from devices that are supposed to be asleep?
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mianelson1mo ago
Figured this was just paranoid talk for years, honestly rolled my eyes at people who taped over their webcams. Then my brother set up a pi-hole on our home network and showed me the dashboard one night. Our Vizio was pinging like 8 different domains at 2am while the screen was black and nobody was even in the room. That was the moment I stopped making excuses for it, now the TV stays on a power strip and I flip the switch when we're done watching. It's wild how much stuff we just trust without ever looking.
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