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My takeaway was just that the root access gave them the ability to find out what was being recorded, and they were able to play back recordings that it made.

It didn't appear to me that they were initiating anything.

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You can see them running "nohup arecord" in the video.

Yes you are right, but also they showed how frequently the TV would trigger the voice recognition and how poorly secure it is.

I think GN did a poor job on splitting the capabilities Vs the problems so it got a bit confuse.

But my takeaway is that this is a easy to hack tv with good enough microphones that has almost none privacy filters.

Anyway, same as other, I might be wrong




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