Smart TVs are dumb, and so are we

[A Guy]

Security researchers have suspected for some time now that smart TVs, or at least the software systems inside them, are actually pretty dumb, and that these network-connected devices could be easy prey for hackers. At the Breakpoint security conference in Melbourne on Thursday, we found out exactly how dumb smart TVs can be. The answer? They're very dumb.

Extraordinarily dumb.

Embarrassingly dumb.

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A Guy

 

[Borg 386]

Quite an age we live in. Everything's watching you & everything is hackable. I'm starting to get paranoid about the new fridge my wife wants....

 

[boohbah]

this guy is a genius...

Lee hooked that function so that when it's called to turn the device off, it turns off the power indicator LED, but leaves the kernel and his rootkit running.

i was considering a smart TV on my next TV but maybe i will just settle for a better quality TV.

it seems then that a smart tv is less smart than a not smart tv.
go figure.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Anything that's smarter than me scares me, one reason I don't have a toaster.