Portland FBI Office Has Important Warning For Smart TV Purchasers

[Molly Pitcher]

Many Americans purchased smart TVs on Black Friday and planned to get more on Cyber Monday, but the FBI wants you to know a few things before you drop a couple of thousand dollars on a system that could steal your privacy.


With the growth of Netflix, Hulu, Disney, and other streaming services, smart TVs are like regular television sets. Still, with an internet connection and with that, many saw the internet-connected televisions as a cord cutter’s super dream: no high cable costs and the ability to choose what you want without long term contracts.


But as we have learned through trial and error, anything connected to the internet has a vulnerability which won’t allow you to be safe. The major problem with internet-connected items is that it opens up smart TVs to security vulnerabilities and hackers. Today, smart TVs come with a camera and a microphone and manufacturers often don’t put security as a priority.

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[Dr. Felix Birdbiter]

I'll stick to my mentally challenged regular TV thank you very much

[RMNIXON]

Those of you who read Orwell's 1984 know he did not see the coming of the home computer or internet. If alive today I am sure he would be shocked how quickly we give away privacy for convenience.

What he did predict was a two-way television set that can see into your room and record your conversations. And now we have that reality complete with Muppet commercials about video phoning right in your living room..............

[kazenatsu]

Does anyone notice the world is more and more coming to resemble the world in (the book) Nineteen Eighty-Four ?

[patrickt]

I'll stick to my mentally challenged regular TV thank you very much

Haven't had a television in almost 25 years. Never saw a "reality television" program. Did I miss much?