LG Smart TVs Found Snooping on Home Networks

[JohnnyJazz]

And LG may be not the only one ...

LG Smart TVs snoop on files shared across a home network and upload file names to an LG-controlled server, according to a new analysis.

The news comes just days after British IT professional Justin Huntley, aka DoctorBeet, found that his own LG Smart TV was uploading his viewing history to LG's servers, even after he had disabled the feature in the device's settings. Huntley's TV also uploaded the names of personal files stored on USB drives attached to the TV.

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http://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html

Edited May 8, 2014 by JohnnyJazz

[Chicog]

That was quite interesting when it came out last year.

[JohnnyJazz]

^ November 2013, it is just 6 month ago !!!

Anyway it is a good reminder that when you have a home network any device linked to that network, including your TV, can be the weakest link that will allow a criminal to steal your bank information or any other sensitive information you keep in the computers linked to this network.

[guzzi850m2]

Thanks for sharing that's nice to know and scary too man.

So your smart TV is actually acting as a spy middle man, fxxx me man.

[JesseFrank]

I assume LG never activated the system because there was nothing new to download what Google already didn't have.

[Chicog]

^ November 2013, it is just 6 month ago !!!

Anyway it is a good reminder that when you have a home network any device linked to that network, including your TV, can be the weakest link that will allow a criminal to steal your bank information or any other sensitive information you keep in the computers linked to this network.

Except 6 months in the world of computers is almost a generation.