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Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal

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On 2019-06-20, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:07:44 +0000 (UTC), Rich <rich@example.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>      ####################################################################
>>      # ATTENTION: This post is a reference to a website.  The poster of #
>>      # this Usenet article is not the author of the referenced website. #
>>      ####################################################################
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>><URL:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qbq5x/the-cia-spied-on-people-t
>>hrough-their-smart-tvs-leaked-documents-reveal>
>>
>>The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>>>
>>>  Hackers at the Central Intelligence Agency, with the help of colleagues
>>>  from the British spy agency MI5, developed malware to secretly spy on
>>>  targets through their Samsung Smart TVs, according to new documents
>>>  published by WikiLeaks.
>>>
>>>  On Tuesday, WikiLeaks dumped a large cache of documents allegedly coming
>>>  from the CIA's hacking unit. Julian Assange's organization dubbed the
>>>  release, which it says it's the first in a series, as "Vault 7," and
>>>  billed it as the largest-ever of confidential CIA intelligence
>>>  documents.
>>>
>>>  "Weeping Angel already hooks key presses [...] to cause the system to
>>>  enter Fake-Off rather than Off."
>>>
>>>  The CIA and MI5 called the project to spy on Samsung Smart TVs "Weeping
>>>  Angel," perhaps a reference to Doctor Who, where weeping angels are "the
>>>  deadliest, most powerful, most malevolent life-form ever produced." The
>>>  malware was designed to keep the smart TVs on even when they were turned
>>>  off. This was dubbed "Fake-Off mode," according to the documents. The
>>>  CIA hackers even developed a way to "suppress" the TVs LED indicators to
>>>  improve the "Fake-Off" mode.
>>>
>
> 	I airdumped my "Smart" TV using my WiFi card ages ago and
> caught it phoning home. It was an oldish TV, I don't think it took
> pics of/recorded audio of/filmed  people using it, there was too
> little traffic for that. Probably just relaying the filenames of
> whatever movies/documents I was loading via USB. The traffic was
> encrypted, so I could only see quantity, not content.
>
> 	https://www.aircrack-ng.org/
>
> 	It's an interesting tool. Linux-only (unless you have an
> adaptor that runs in promiscuous mode under Windows).
>
> 	My wife's "smart"phone hammers the card, even when it's not
> being used ..... by her.

I block all that with my PiHole.


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[Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-17 20:07 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-18 20:35 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-19 09:17 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-19 22:35 +0100
        Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-20 06:56 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2019-06-20 13:56 -0300
    Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-20 19:04 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2019-06-23 17:25 -0300
        Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-23 21:59 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-06-23 23:44 +0100
            Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-24 08:50 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-06-24 00:12 +0000

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