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Samsung say don't have a private conversation in front of your TV
Topic Started: Feb 10 2015, 02:37 AM (691 Views)
Mario

Samsung said people shouldn't have a private conversation in front of their SmartTV.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/09/samsung-warns-dont-have-private-conversations-in-front-of-smarttv/



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VoiceofReason

Yeah, this is why I don't use the voice-activated feature on my cell phone.

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UTB

Or in your car!

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/01/technology/security/car-hack/

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Imagine driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour, when suddenly the wheel turns hard right. You crash. And it was because someone hacked your car.

It's not far-fetched science fiction. It's the near-term future today's hackers are warning about.

Most people aren't aware their cars are already high-tech computers. And now we're networking them by giving them wireless connectivity. Yet there's a danger to turning your car into a smartphone on wheels: It makes them a powerful target for hackers.

Interviews with automakers, suppliers and security advisers reveal a major problem with the new wave of "connected" cars: The inside of your car has ancient technology that presents a security risk.

The 50 to 100 tiny computers that control your steering, acceleration and brakes are really dumb. They rarely conduct authentication, checking whether that message is really coming from you. An outsider can send them commands.
The computer code in cars is outdated. It's similar to the on/off switches used in industrial controls. It's easily manipulated.
Much like the human central nervous system, every electronic part inside a car is connected to a central spine. Tap one part, you can likely reach any other.

"The protocol and internal parts of the car were never meant to be connected to anything," said Joe Klein, a researcher at security firm Disrupt6.

Cars' computers were built safely enough back in the 1990s, when the car was a closed box. But their architecture won't hold up as we hook them up to the Internet.
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VoiceofReason

Aye, aye, aye.

I'm going to end up living among the Amish.
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Minister Of Information
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Good information.
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milesarlington

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cisslybee2012
The REBEL
I never buy TV's with any bells and whistles. :D

I learned the hard way to never buy a TV with special features built in.

Only barebones flat TV, and sticks a Roku stick in the back. :D
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UTB

No one mentioned it, but a TV must be capable of TRANSMITTING and RECEIVING signals in order to do this!
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