https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-and-cars-for-spying/?utm_term=.14f7f912175f I am not making any accusations, but delivering information that I think is worth taking into account. http://video.foxnews.com/v/5351224089001/?#sp=show-clips
If you can code or understand how machines and devices use programming, you were already aware. China, Russia and other nations are doing the same thing. Doesn't make it right, but then the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies are not always working above level.
As we accept these 'easy to use' features of technology more and more, like voice activated TVs, Phones, even house lights etc. That is a welcome matt to have everything you say in the devices presence to be recorded. Things like Amazon echo and the equivalent Google device are just welcoming anyone to listen to your conversations in your home.
Finally all people who claimed that a great journalist Michael Hastings was assassinated might be proven right. Knowing all the facts it's entirely plausible that his car was truly hacked. Investigation: Who Killed Michael Hastings? Hours before journalist Hasting's deadly car crash, he suspected his car's system had been hacked. By Carl Gibson | October 28, 2013 http://www.mintpressnews.com/killed-michael-hastings/171386/ The story that Hastings was working on at the time of his death centered around CIA Director John Brennan, the chief architect of President Obama’s foreign drone program. It related specifically to Brennan’s role as the administration’s point man tracking investigative journalists and their sources in Washington. This email from Stratfor, a CIA-connected private security firm whose emails were hacked and released to the public by Wikileaks in February of last year, reveals that Brennan was indeed behind the “witch hunts of investigative journalists.” The night of his death, Hastings had contacted Wikileaks attorney Jennifer Robinson and sent an email to his colleagues at the news site BuzzFeed, saying he was working on a big story and was “going off the rada[r],” citing fears over federal authorities interviewing his friends. Hastings blind-copied his friend, the Staff Sgt. Joe Biggs, whom Hastings had known from his time embedded in Afghanistan. According to L.A. Weekly, just hours before the deadly crash Hastings had asked to borrow his neighbor’s Volvo because he suspected his own car’s computer system had been hacked. The Los Angeles Police Department said repeatedly it suspects no foul play. Questioned after Hastings’s death, the FBI confirmed that the journalist was not under any investigation. But those statements were directly contradicted in September when redacted FBI documents surfaced following a Freedom of Information Act request by the news network Al Jazeera, which showed that Hastings was in fact under investigation for a story in which he had interviewed a U.S. soldier who had been captured in Afghanistan. Is This What Cyber-Assassination Looks Like?...
It would appear so. The vehicle would have had a process that allowed it to be controlled from an external source, like OnStar or other type of connectivity. Or, it would have had to have a car area network (CAN) that was addressable from a remote link like blue tooth or other services. But yes, this capability has been demonstrated a number of times over the years to the car manufacturers and the public at the annual black hat conventions.
Great. No wonder that 60" curved Samsung 4K HD I bought was so cheap, considering what it is... At least I'm engaged and I don't have to go to town on myself...
I didn't know smart TVs had microphones built into them with a way to modulate or digitize the signal so it could be transmitted over the internet. Does anyone here have a smart TV they can talk to?
My remote is like a touch screen remote but I can't talk to it that I know of... When my DISH satellite get's upgraded, it'll have features like a remote you can talk into though... Lets you change channels and search without navigating through other places.
My kid's Xbox works the same way your DISH deal does, but that doesn't get sent back over the internet because you're talking to the DISH box. And even then, your TV is connected to the DISH box so that wouldn't work because if the TV is picking up people speaking it's only sending a signal back to the box. Is your DISH box connected to the Internet? The only way I see this working is if a person has a Smart TV connected directly to Cable TV with NO BOX and the tv has a built in mic and modulation method. It would also mean the CIA is either hacking into the Cable TV companies or, if your TV has an IP address, the cIA managed to find out what it is and could access it directly. But once a box is hooked up to it all bets are off.
