"Smart" TVs, AI and basically spying on people...

[NiHaoMike]

It would be funny to find a "drive by" vulnerability that can be used to upload a (not so) "malware" that performs a DoS attack against the data collection servers and maybe even close the very security hole it entered through.

[lhk5195]

It is conceivable that if AI truly develops, the emergence of Terminators in Skynet is bound to happen sooner or later. Didn't an AI teaming-up incident just happen recently?

[tom66]

If they choose to have their TVs connect to a wifi interface they've negotiated access to, they can do that. They already do with cars - both wifi and cell. You don't get a say.

But, you could get into it and perhaps mangle what's being sent? It's likely they put more effort into having the feature work and less effort on keeping hackers out.

It will be data sent over HTTPS.  You'd only be able to mangle it at the source itself, by modifying the TV's software, or by emulating what a TV sent (you'd likely have to steal the TV's certificates, but that's not too hard if you got root access to the TV.)

[Randy222]

If they choose to have their TVs connect to a wifi interface they've negotiated access to, they can do that. They already do with cars - both wifi and cell. You don't get a say.

But, you could get into it and perhaps mangle what's being sent? It's likely they put more effort into having the feature work and less effort on keeping hackers out.

It will be data sent over HTTPS.  You'd only be able to mangle it at the source itself, by modifying the TV's software, or by emulating what a TV sent (you'd likely have to steal the TV's certificates, but that's not too hard if you got root access to the TV.)

If there's a way in, then there's a way to hack it. That has always been a flaw with computing goods.

[PlainName]

I suspect that LG would throw massive weight behind having the perpetrators given jail time for unauthorized computer access.

[Andy Chee]

I suspect that LG would throw massive weight behind having the perpetrators given jail time for unauthorized computer access.

One would think that before attempting to perform unauthorised computer access, that the perpetrator(s) have fully anonymised their attack vector(s).

[madires]

I suspect that LG would throw massive weight behind having the perpetrators given jail time for unauthorized computer access.

Or they will sell you a subscription for an AI powered total protection package.

[studiot]

I suspect that LG would throw massive weight behind having the perpetrators given jail time for unauthorized computer access.

Or they will sell you a subscription for an AI powered total protection package.

Deep Freeze is the only 'total protection package' I know of that actually works, since hardware versions have gone out of style.