Comments on: Big Brother: HDTV Easily Hacked And Spying On Viewers

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:43:02 +0000

The optics and the audio have to have a physical connection, and are easily identified. It doesn’t take much to pull the housing from the chassis, cut the physical wiring to the visual/audio, and install your own simple on/off switch to defeat this. If in doubt or don’t have the ability, you should be able to get it done at a tv repair shop. It will probably void the warranty, but in the scheme of things the warranty isn’t that great any way. Start looking for work arounds on this.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:14:47 +0000

Read the owners manual!? Ha! If I come visit your home you’ll never tell me that I’m on camera and you’ll never warn me that your couch is now a “public place.” That is the same as illegal wiretap and video. It’s not the same as a private monitoring system because it goes (1.) to the cloud, and (2.) through a third party, and (3.) can never be removed from the records even with a court order because the cloud crosses international boundaries and jurisdictions.

A covert TV camera in the home is no different than jail, except that in jail people know they are being watched.

Allowing this or making excuses for this is evil. The same argument was used by Nazis and is still used by Communists and Dictators and Tyrants today. Shame on you for supporting tyranny.

By: Button

Button — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:00:08 +0000

“1984″ was required reading when I was in school. I read it back in 1970. We had class discussions and were all of the opinion this could never really happen. We were young and stupid.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:04:55 +0000

just put tape over it

By: george

george — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:22:25 +0000

nice you beat me to an Orwell reference. Time to pull the book off the shelf and give it a re-read.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:19:49 +0000

As soon as I saw the kinect I knew the year was 1984.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:38:28 +0000

Whoops sorry I see the numbers at the end of article. Thanks

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:37:35 +0000

What are the model numbers of these teevees? A family member bought one last July so it is probably not a model 1984.