TV phones home with your viewing habits, names of files you screen, even if you tell it not to
pc, mobile phone and now Tv is spying you:
I found this story:
http://boingboing.net/2013/11/19/lg-tv-phones-home-with-your-vi.html#more-269086
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Damn =/ that's the world we live in... too bad =/
One question: would it be possible to control what data get sent to LG at the wireless router? (closing ports or something...?)
It would be a bit ridiculous, but yes you can run IPTables on the router and do netfiltering. You'd need to analyze the spyware and drop all packets from offending IPs and/or whitelist only the good IP addresses and block everything else. Obviously the latter would make surfing the internet useless.
You can also specifically block urls via dd-wrt, I assume LibreWRT may be able to do the same: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Access_Restrictions
why ridiculous?? It seems like a sane thing to do, if you can't buy another tv and want to use it to watch "private" files, or simply don't want them to learn your viewing habits.
But thanks for the idea of the firewall =)
On 04/12/13 01:13, dadix wrote:
> pc, mobile phone and now Tv is spying you:
>
> I found this story:
>
> http://boingboing.net/2013/11/19/lg-tv-phones-home-with-your-vi.html#more-269086
Very disturbing. It seems LG is catching up with TiVo, who has been
doing similar surveillance on TV viewers for over a decade:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-5154219.html
Andrew.
dadix said:
"pc, mobile phone and now Tv is spying you:"
And also cars
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/10/31/renault-will-remotely-lock-down-electric-cars/