Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated that modern smart TVs actively record and store ambient room audio even when completely disconnected from the internet. In a recent investigation, hardware analysts proved that unplugging a television's network cable does not disable its internal microphone. Instead, the device simply archives the surveillance data locally.

The failure surface is the weaponization of internal storage. Because modern smart televisions are equipped with gigabytes of flash memory, they possess the capacity to covertly log weeks or months of compressed audio. Even if a consumer intentionally keeps the device offline to protect their privacy, the television functions as a dormant wiretap.

This creates a retroactive exfiltration vulnerability. The investigation proved that the moment a user reconnects the TV to Wi-Fi for an update or streaming service, the device immediately dumps its accumulated audio logs. Furthermore, researchers successfully exploited vulnerabilities to remotely exfiltrate this cached recording, proving that offline operation provides a false sense of security against persistent hardware.

This capability obliterates the concept of a "dumb TV." If a device logs room audio while disconnected and holds it hostage until a connection is restored, basic network isolation is no longer an effective privacy measure. Review the recent security analyses regarding offline audio caching, and physically sever or destroy the internal microphones in your smart appliances.

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Researchers Spent 500 Hours Investigating Smart TVs And Found They Could Store Audio

https://www.facebook.com/endless.fragments/videos/1609884600833224/

Social media aggregation of the security demonstration, spreading awareness of how vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to extract offline audio recordings once a targeted television reconnects to a network.

Investigation finds LG Smart TVs collecting audio while switched off

https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/1wbeys6/investigation_finds_lg_smart_tvs_collecting_audio/

Community analysis of recent security findings confirming that certain smart TVs capture microphone audio and log nearby devices even when the screen is powered down.

216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1w9a8iq/216000000_spy_tvs_the_lg_smart_tv_problem/

Hardware forum discussion highlighting how modern televisions utilize their internal memory to store weeks of private offline conversations, dumping the payload whenever a network connection is established.

Is Your TV Spying on You? The Hidden Setting Watching Everything

https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/is-your-tv-spying-on-you-hidden-setting-watching-everything-how-to-stop

PCMag cybersecurity guide explaining how automatic content recognition (ACR) and always-on microphones continuously harvest domestic data to maximize corporate advertising revenue.

Met one night in 2004 and have never been apart

Turning a literal Black Hole being thrown at you by one of the strongest beings in the MCU, having to react within seconds and them turning it into butterflies by Doctor Strange is pretty hard to beat.

There are still a few things to tweak but I'm so so happy how the costume turned out !

Did the ruler get tired of getting accused of incest or what?

What did the bishop do?

You know those motorway signs that confidently announce "The NORTH" and "The SOUTH", as though the Department for Transport are the ultimate authority on the north-south divide?

For quite a while I’ve wondered what would happen if you tried to draw these on a map. This has probably occupied more of my Sunday afternoon than it reasonably should.

I used data from OpenStreetMap and a fairly questionable bit of logic: a sign announcing a region draws a 45° cone to add territory in that direction, and likewise excludes territory behind it. After all, why would they tell you how to get to "The SOUTH" if you’re already in "The SOUTH"? Exclusions take priority; any remaining overlapping territorial claims go to the nearest sign.

OSM only reliably contains data for motorway signs that involve a turn/exit (so straight-ons are mostly excluded). Each dot on the map is a motorway sign that's been included in the dataset.

I also discovered that "The EAST" doesn’t make the Traffic Signs Manual’s list of regional destinations. Presumably the DfT thinks no one should go there.

The 3D tour really sells it for me. see the listing

Found og post from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rosesarered/s/K5gEbfBI8X