Samsung's warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter

[Tookeri]

Maybe so but I've only had 60+ inch ones which makes the search even harder.

I am just curios.

What about smaller screens? Like 20 or 24 inch are those easier to find in Europe?

Don't know, sorry.

 

[Borg 386]

Uh-oh: Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt your captured voice data

Uh-oh: Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt your captured voice data

Samsung does not encrypt voice recordings that are collected and transmitted by its smart TVs to a third party service, even though the company has claimed that it uses encryption to secure consumers’ personal information.

Following the incident, David Lodge, a researcher with a U.K.-based security firm called Pen Test Partners, intercepted and analyzed the Internet traffic generated by a Samsung smart TV and found that it does send captured voice data to a remote server using a connection on port 443.

This port is typically associated with encrypted HTTPS (HTTP with SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer) communications, but when Lodge looked at the actual traffic he was surprised to see that it wasn’t actually encrypted.

“What we see here is not SSL encrypted data,” Lodge said in a blog post. “It’s not even HTTP data, it’s a mix of XML and some custom binary data packet.”

Lodge believes that the reason why Samsung chose to use port 443 might simply be because it’s typically not blocked by network firewalls.

“I don’t understand why they don’t encapsulate it in HTTP(S) though,” he said.

The responses back to the TV from the third-party server, which include the text interpretation of the spoken words, are also unencrypted.

Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect

 

[Tookeri]

That makes it even worse! So you might say that Samsung Smart TVs are also very stupid Very bad Samsung!!!