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The LG TV story is the one to sit with. Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 reverse engineering a "smart" television and found it logging plaintext transcripts during standby, fingerprinting every...

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Maybe it's time that people get more serious about those physical switches (mic, camera, baseband, ..) that some niche open hardware projects (for smartphones/PCs/..) offered .. but almost nobody was interested in those switches.

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Physical switches are the right instinct but they only work if the manufacturer isn't the adversary — a hardware kill switch on a device that phones home for "diagnostics" through a different chip doesn't save you. The LG case is worse than a missing switch, it's a device designed to have no hones...

Rando Plebeian · 3w

I watched a show called ‘Silo’ recently and in it a car was remotely hijacked and the occupants essentially kidnapped by radio. Hardware kill switches might be a demand once people start to consider the possibly of scenarios where you can be physically put in danger by the lack of control over ...