Andrew David Wong:
Since I never planned to use the voice features, I simply found a sewing
needle, inserted it into the mic hole, and used a flat piece of hard
plastic on the other end to apply moderate force. There was a single
"click" sound. After that, voice commands were no longer
On 11/27/20 7:08 PM, Steve Coleman wrote:
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1. TV's are often encoded to deliberately export use intelligence data to
be utilized by the advertisers and ratings organizations. The camera and
microphone, if installed, are actually designed and used to watch and
listen to the family watching
hi Steve
Steve:
> Without a Nation State being involved, the most likely threat would come
> from a permiscuous WiFi in the TV auto-connecting to any open networks in
> your area.
Good point. Which links to my thought if you wanted to keep a Qubes
box secure it would be a really BAD idea to plug
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 6:01 PM Alex Smirnoff wrote:
> Assuming poor software quality of typical TV firmware and codecs, DVB
> should be pretty easy exploitable. However, I doubt a compromised TV could
> do serious harm to your computer via HDMI. Speaking on your demo.. there is
> a lot of factors
Assuming poor software quality of typical TV firmware and codecs, DVB
should be pretty easy exploitable. However, I doubt a compromised TV could
do serious harm to your computer via HDMI. Speaking on your demo.. there is
a lot of factors to be involved. Chaining a Xen exploit to Chrome might be
Without a Nation State being involved, the most likely threat would come
from a permiscuous WiFi in the TV auto-connecting to any open networks in
your area. If you are sure that is not the case then it should be 'safe
enough' for most people.
Side channel attacks take tools, skills, and physical
On 11/25/20 6:31 AM, River~~ wrote:
Hi all
In the days of CRT monitors one way the security of a computer system
could be compromised non-intrusively (ie without amending the
installed code) was by picking up the radio-frequency leakage from the
tube in the monitor. This could only be done from
Hi all
In the days of CRT monitors one way the security of a computer system
could be compromised non-intrusively (ie without amending the
installed code) was by picking up the radio-frequency leakage from the
tube in the monitor. This could only be done from near by, but where
possible it
