Big Brother Found in Samsung TVs
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Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads
Reverse engineer and cybersecurity bounty hunter log4j recently found they were getting "weirdly targeted ads" on their Samsung TV and discovered privacy breaches. As they live-tweeted their discoveries, they found increasingly concerning code in the Tizen operating system, including detailed user telemetry from packet logging, audio categorization, screenshots, cross-device identification for ad tracking, and more, all designed to extract as mu…
Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads — 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker
A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.
A cyber-security and inverse development specialist, hiding under the pseudonym log4j, found fragments of the code in the Tisen operating system, installed on Samsung televisions. He believed that they could be used to collect data on users on a massive scale. He was forced to do research by an unusually accurate advertisement on his own television. The log4j published a series of posts in The Post Cybersecurity Expert: Samsung televisions on Ti…
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