Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: [Link Posting] The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal Date: 20 Jun 2019 19:04:23 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net dQBLoLMzZ9IUY4DIqDWFlAWY3gEIAZ57e/WHGBGjxDfMZFw2Ix Cancel-Lock: sha1:6H/UnVmo3LC4neiQxneNurRrTKQ= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:18271 On 2019-06-20, Shadow wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:07:44 +0000 (UTC), Rich > wrote: > >> #################################################################### >> # ATTENTION: This post is a reference to a website. The poster of # >> # this Usenet article is not the author of the referenced website. # >> #################################################################### >> >>>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. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 25th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3185 Rising above bedlam