One of many, many issues I have with these people is that they are ridiculously paranoid and conspiratorial about everything, but something like this they seem to be clueless about. They just don’t understand technology.
Good thing they aren’t involved with voting on technology issues, evaluating military tech, biotechnology or medical advances…oh, crap.
Empty G may not be worried about strokes, blood clots, and such, but with all the adultery she has been involved in with her trainer she might worry about syphilis, gonorrhea, and a host of other STDs.
I wouldn’t cry if her info was leaked.
A couple days ago I saw this …
That is almost certainly the case. I wouldn’t put it past her to disable the password on her wifi because it’s too hard to remember.
There were some TVs made a few years ago with cameras (and microphones) , and there was some concern that these could be hacked. Apparently it couldn’t be done remotely, though. A would be hacker needed physical access to the TV.
She pays for the weirdest streaming service.
Uh-oh! The neighbors might call the Gazpacho Police on her!
Yup @Jim_Campbell and you can get them for free if you sign away your privacy rights.
When you are a self avowed Christian Nationalist you have to expect the occasional message from God. /s
Nobody escapes the wrath of the Gazpacho Police. Because revenge is a dish best served COLD.
After dealing with my elder relatives’ dementia, OMG this is giving me flashbacks. One of them was convinced that her neighbors were watching her through the TV, not with any nefarious intent, but rather to make sure she was okay. Another swore there were these teenagers up on the roof trying to break in.
Not sure what MTG’s deal is, but she ought to get screened for early onset dementia.
do any TVs have a capability to spy on you? Maybe through voice recognition inputs? Are there any TVs with cameras built in?
Smart TVs absolutely do spy on us, just not the way you think. No microphones or cameras. They report on our watching habits.
I’m sure you’re right about someone casting to the wrong TV.
They have microphones, typically in the remote.
Some Samsung models have cameras. A good many TVs also have built in Alexa.
Right. That’s what I was trying to say in my follow up comment. I feel like people always do this about hacking. They jump to what is theoretically possible rather than what is more obviously the case. Even with the “spying” that amazon and google do, keeping track of our buying habits to advertise to us, while kinda annoying, isn’t the same as what we like to imagine: a creepy person listening in on our intimate conversations or watching us undress through a secret camera. They don’t care. There’s too much date for a human to analyze. Of course if you are a politician who lots of people dislike there might be a slightly higher possibility that someone could really hack your device in that way. (The watergate break-in or even the fact that they got ahold of and analyzed Hunter Biden’s old laptop proves that.) Theoretically someone could be spying on her. But yeah the more likely answer is, well, probably not in that way.
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There’s no reason why a TV wouldn’t be able to do that , especially a smart TV. If you look at the permissions available on google TVs and Roku TVs for example (those are the ones I know personally) you could easily run apps that hook into the microphone. It’s entirely possible there is a vector of attack involved that could hack a TV and then log into it from remote. Is this what happened to MTG? I don’t know. Maybe? Maybe not? I’d wager there are plenty of spies in the DC area working for a variety of states that wouldn’t mind having access to all the permissions a smart TV can give you for any of the congresscritters, supreme court justices, or various executive branch members.
But do I believe it’s feasible that a federal congresscritter would be targeted by bad actors and spied upon? Sure. Do smart TVs warn you when people connect? Absolutely. Is this a valid vector of attack? Sure, it’d be pretty simple if you can get the TV compromised or running a sideloaded APK.
Did this happen to her? No telling.
But it’s very, very plausible.
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