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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2019-06-19 12:10 pm

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The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs

[personal profile] doug 2019-06-19 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The CIA is awful, terrible, no-good, very bad. This is not as bad as their all-time worst operation for ongoing collateral damage (that would be launching a fake vaccination campaign to track down Osama bin Laden), but it's not very good. Lots of people are already worried that the CIA are spying on them through their television. It's a classic delusion, to the point of being something of a stereotype. It is really not a helpful contribution to mental health across the globe for them to actually do it.
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Re: The CIA Spied on People Through Their Samsung Smart TVs

[personal profile] dewline 2019-06-19 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Therefore, it also was a Bad Idea to let TV tech get to the point that would allow spy agencies to actually do their jobs to us via our TV sets. If only retroactively so.