• bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Thanks for the tip. But what about microphones in tv’s, in I presume microwaves, washing machines, and everything else.

    We need a way to jam up their ability to transmit the information back to Bezos’ house or whatever.

  • sumsinj@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Do people here still have their smartphones or are these things the first on the microphone hitlist?

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      We’re really fucked aren’t we.

      So just remove my sim card and unplug my firewall? Got it.

      • MadBits@europe.pub
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        17 days ago

        You would be surprised about the capabilities we had in 1970-80s for spying, with way way less technology than what we have today. At this point I think privacy is just a myth, we can literally use light to listen on people by having it bounce off of their windows and interpreting it back as sound. As a side note, rich people do use windows with a vibrating feature exactly to block this old method. There’s literally very little you can do if you are targeted by the government. (Except leaving the country, if possible)

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    FYI most modern TVs have a second microphone actually in the display that’s actually used for the nefarious tracking and listening for assistant wake words to save remote battery life

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    It has no way of sending any recordings if you don’t connect it to the Internet.

    • white_nrdy@programming.dev
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      17 days ago

      I have heard that some vendors support joining adhoc networks with others of the same brand. So if you have an LG TV (as an example) that you dont connect to the internet, but your neighbor has one that is connected, they could theoretically link up and bridge the unconnected one.

      To be fair, this would have to be functionality included in the factory, and may not actually be a thing. But I remember reading something about it with LGs a few years ago, and it stuck with me.

  • KeavesSharpi@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    It’s so f’ing simple. JUST DON’T CONNECT YOUR TV TO YOUR WIFI. Get your streams from a separate device.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    17 days ago

    Remember ye old life-hack that you can use earbuds as a microphone in a pinch?

    Speakers and microphones are conceptually the same technology. If your tv can play sound then in theory it can be used by a malicious hacker or company to record sound.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Things will become more obscure and harder to disable. In fact since you own nothing and you’ll be happy, youre damaging government property and the police are already dispatched to take you to a totally cool and totally legal prison slave camp.

      • Goforce5@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        I thought that greentext was so outrageous when it first appeared, and now its probably going to be reality at some point.

        • cuerdo@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          Youtube asking you to say the brand name or the jingle to skip the add. You heard it here first

          • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            16 days ago

            They’ll gamify it. Remember “Karaoke Revolution”? I think “Rock Band” and its derivatives also built upon it.

      • yxc999@lemmy.mlOP
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        17 days ago

        It works! I was fully prepared for it to not work and explain to my wife why we need to order a new one, but no issue at all lmao

        • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          So if the remote still works then wouldn’t that mean there is still a microphone? Or have they gone back to line of sight infrared? Or am I just thinking of the really really old remote tech?

            • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              16 days ago

              Not fully related, but early TV remotes used sound rather than IR. The buttons made a distinctive “click” noise, from a mechanical mechanism. The different clicks were detected in the TV and used as input.

              Plus side, no batteries to deal with.

              Down side, about as (un)reliable as you would expect.

              • Cricket@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                16 days ago

                That’s wild. How did the TVs identify the distinctive sound? That seems like it would be a pretty interesting engineering trick.

                • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  16 days ago

                  I believe it was old school analogue electronics, but I’m speculating there.

                  I just looked it up, it was ultrasonic signals. The main one was the Zenith Space Command.