There are microphones in YOUR POCKET. They track your location and likely have access to all your communications literally in person and online. We’re going after remotes though? Okay. Sure. Whatever.
Have you considered the possibility that many of the people you are talking to have things like degoogled phones with custom ROMs, while the remote is running a closed-source firmware that most definitely is spying on you all the time?
It definitely makes it a lot less likely, since you need to have hardware exploits (or some Android zero-days), which are rare, valuable, non-trivial to exploit, and only accessible to a very limited group of actors (CIA, very proficient hacker groups), so these will not be wasted on just stealing your data…
It isn’t different issues though. It is the same issue. But removing the microphone from your TV remote is literally nothing if you live in a world with cellphones or have a cellphone or even just use the internet. Your router can see your house these days.
This defeatist mentality is exactly what those spying want you to think. Why bother trying to be more private at all right? Might as well give up entirely
It’s literally not defeatist. I’m saying there is an army coming and you are painting your nails to get ready for war.
It might look cool, might even help you have confidence to fight better. But it’s worthless entirely especially if you live in a house or go to a workplace with people that have phones, own one yourself, have a wifi network or your neighbor has wifi.
That’s whataboutism. The simple fact is, the vast majority of people don’t want or need microphone capabilities in their tv/remote (unlike a smartphone). But it’s there and can be exploited. Add in the fact that TVs are opaque privacy nightmares. Do most people know what they’re doing at any given moment? Not a chance.
It can’t be a whataboutism. It’s the same topic. I might’ve not made it clear but if you live in a house with wifi, your neighbor has wifi, your family or coworkers own phones, you go out in public really at all. This isn’t going to be the one that’s gonna move any needle, it is at best a feel good thing to do.
Guys c’mon
There are microphones in YOUR POCKET. They track your location and likely have access to all your communications literally in person and online. We’re going after remotes though? Okay. Sure. Whatever.
Nobody here saw anything of Apple’s keynote a few days ago.
Several times my privacy-WTF sense went tingling off the radar. Those devices are the absolute pinnacle of privacy invasion.
Have you considered the possibility that many of the people you are talking to have things like degoogled phones with custom ROMs, while the remote is running a closed-source firmware that most definitely is spying on you all the time?
If you think degoogling your phone is going to make it not spy on you, then it makes sense you would target your remote.
It definitely makes it a lot less likely, since you need to have hardware exploits (or some Android zero-days), which are rare, valuable, non-trivial to exploit, and only accessible to a very limited group of actors (CIA, very proficient hacker groups), so these will not be wasted on just stealing your data…
Bizarre take. Most of us are perfectly capable of being aware of more than one issue at a time. One doesn’t cancel out the other.
It isn’t different issues though. It is the same issue. But removing the microphone from your TV remote is literally nothing if you live in a world with cellphones or have a cellphone or even just use the internet. Your router can see your house these days.
It’s goofy.
This defeatist mentality is exactly what those spying want you to think. Why bother trying to be more private at all right? Might as well give up entirely
It’s literally not defeatist. I’m saying there is an army coming and you are painting your nails to get ready for war.
It might look cool, might even help you have confidence to fight better. But it’s worthless entirely especially if you live in a house or go to a workplace with people that have phones, own one yourself, have a wifi network or your neighbor has wifi.
That’s whataboutism. The simple fact is, the vast majority of people don’t want or need microphone capabilities in their tv/remote (unlike a smartphone). But it’s there and can be exploited. Add in the fact that TVs are opaque privacy nightmares. Do most people know what they’re doing at any given moment? Not a chance.
It can’t be a whataboutism. It’s the same topic. I might’ve not made it clear but if you live in a house with wifi, your neighbor has wifi, your family or coworkers own phones, you go out in public really at all. This isn’t going to be the one that’s gonna move any needle, it is at best a feel good thing to do.