A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices’ microphones to listen to users.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Buy more shiny stuff, its so cool man! What do you mean CIA tools? Look at the shiny metal edge andnthr colors on the screen, man! It sends my conversations somewhere? Well yeah, whatever, its shiny man, and it has that logo that I can use to brag about how much money I’ve spent! I can use it to show off that I’m rich, man! Yeah yeah, I know, something about privacy, who xarea about that? You were born in 100% privacy, I was born in the age of monitoring, its cool cuz the devices are shiny man, they’re all shiney and so cool, buy another phone that will barely function anymore because its so riddled with spyware that the spyware has to check if its not innthr way of other spyware that will be spying on yhr spyware, but its cool bro, its just only your TV that spies on you, and your phone, but that is cool and of course the light bulbs are spying but they always did that, no? ITS SHINY MAN, AND SO CHEAP BUT SO SHINY THAT I CAN SHOW OFF MY RICHES, BRO!

    I loathe this world, I hate what we’ve become, I despise what the world allows a few handfuls of narcissistic psychopaths to do to them…