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LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (www.notebookcheck.net)
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An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

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[–] graycube@lemmy.world 45 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

My LG TV runs WebOS, which is a linux distro. I have been wondering how hard it is to root and replace with a distro of my own choosing. I had thought because my TV is pretty old that I was safe from the more sophisticated spying, but last week it interrupted what I was watching and would not let me continue using it without agreeing to new terms of use. This revived my interest in rooting it.

[–] doogstar@lemmy.100010101.xyz 2 points 23 minutes ago

https://cani.rootmy.tv/ - I just recently bought an LG for the first time, with eyes wide open, and used this site to get root on it, as well as VLANing it with a strict block list, but also an allow list only based policy, and strict no external DNS requests policies.

Also worth knowing that when accepting their policies many of them are optional and are just data slurping consent , think it was the top 2 compulsory in my region out of about 5.

[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I saw this linked the other day. I haven’t looked into it deeply or done it.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

I rooted my C1 years ago. I spent weeks afterwards worried that I just destroyed the warranty of a $1,500 TV.

But today, I've never felt so justified.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

I didn't know LG webOS rooting was a thing, that's interesting to know.

There is an open source version of webOS, although I don't know how it compares to the stock LG version. Maybe there will eventually be something like a LineageOS equivalent.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago

Go look up "tivoization". GPLv2 isn't enough to protect you from this shit.